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Parkers Corners, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Iosco Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48836. The Survey maps it on the Parkers Corners quadrangle.

Parkers Corners within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Parkers Corners between 1996 and 2020, burning about 30 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning2
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
5 September 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOWLERVILLE FD 0000516 - 2018
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOWLERVILLE FD 0000449 - 2018
21 June 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVINGSTON 01
6 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOWLERVILLE FD 299 - 2020
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOWLERVILLE FD 0000224 - 2019
23 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFOWLERVILLE FD 0000267 - 2018
21 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTOBRIDGE AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 201803

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Parkers Corners: 2 producers. 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
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Livingston County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkers Corners in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindParkers Corners$15,000Trees were blown down and a barn was destroyed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindParkers Corners$15,000Trees were blown down and a barn roof damaged.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindParkers Corners$15,000Trees were blown down and an old barn destroyed.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindParkers Corners$10,000Trees snapped and uprooted due to straight line winds from Wallace road to Cedar road, along and north of West Van Orgen Road.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindParkers Corners-Trees reported blown down, along with siding off a house.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindParkers Corners-Central dispatch reported a tree blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindParkers Corners-Central dispatch reported a tree blown down.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Plainfield4.9 miles16
Fowlerville6.7 miles11
Fleming7.4 miles11
Gregory7.7 miles16
Bullis Crossing8.1 miles16
Anderson8.8 miles16
Williamsville9.0 miles16
Unadilla10.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 634396. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.