Meisenheimer Corners, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Summit Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49431. The Survey maps it on the Pentwater quadrangle.

Meisenheimer Corners within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1932 USGS Ludington SW quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milwaukee quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1983 USGS Ludington quadrangle1:100000
1983 USGS Pentwater quadrangle1:25000

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Meisenheimer Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
11 May 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2010	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MASON 02
4 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HART FD 32 - 2019
26 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIVERTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000031 - 2019
23 March 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	OCEANA 16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Meisenheimer Corners: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dow Chemical - Ludington	Halite	Producer	Sedimentary
Johnson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ludington Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mason 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
Riverton (historical)	4.3 miles	10
White Pine Village	5.1 miles	10
Wiley	6.4 miles	11
Buttersville	6.4 miles	10
Ludington	7.0 miles	10
Amber	7.7 miles	10
North Epworth	8.7 miles	10
Epworth Assembly	8.8 miles	10

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 Q122572573

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 1622396. 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.