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Napier, Michigan

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

Napier 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Napier between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000455 - 2019
7 May 2020Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSISTER LAKES FD 020-022 - 2020
2 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 52 - 2018
7 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 39 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 38 - 2019
27 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSISTER LAKES FD 018-034 - 2018
8 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSISTER LAKES FD 020-011 - 2020
3 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKEELER TOWNSHIP FIRE RESCUE 30 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien 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 Napier: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rudell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bainbridge Center1.5 miles10
Spinks Corners2.1 miles10
Naomi3.5 miles10
Millburg3.8 miles10
Pearl Grange4.2 miles10
Shanghai Corners4.9 miles10
Benton Center5.6 miles11
Sodus5.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 633210. 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.