Maple Grove Corners, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in South Haven Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49090. The Survey maps it on the Lacota quadrangle.

Maple Grove Corners within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1927 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1931 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Bangor quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Lacota quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Maple Grove Corners between 2003 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	6.2 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COVERT FD 0000167 - 2018
5 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000668 - 2018
7 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000497 - 2018
3 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000506 - 2019
22 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COVERT FD 0000152 - 2018
13 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTH HAVEN AREA ESA 0000557 - 2019
5 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	COVERT FD 0000098 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maple Grove Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Austin Site	Silica	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Indian Grove	2.2 miles	11
South Haven	2.5 miles	11
Wildwood	2.8 miles	11
Sulphur Springs	2.8 miles	11
Jericho Corners	2.9 miles	11
Crystal Beach	3.2 miles	11
Friendsville	4.8 miles	11
West Bangor	5.6 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122569969

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1618707. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.