Millburg, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1970. It stands in Benton Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49022. It stands on Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sodus quadrangle.

Millburg within Berrien County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1927 USGS Benton Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1930 USGS Benton Harbor quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Sodus quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

34 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Millburg between 2018 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 12 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	17
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5

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
7 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000455 - 2019
24 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 163 - 2020
7 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000399 - 2019
22 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 140 - 2020
9 July 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 100 - 2020
8 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000339 - 2019
5 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 195 - 2020
28 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000374 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien 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
Benton Center	2.0 miles	11
Spinks Corners	2.3 miles	10
Pearl Grange	2.4 miles	10
Twelve Corners	2.5 miles	10
Bainbridge Center	3.2 miles	10
Benton Heights	3.5 miles	10
Napier	3.8 miles	10
Riverside	4.7 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 Q122546012

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 632351. 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.