Pearl Grange, 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. The Survey maps it on the Sodus quadrangle.

Pearl Grange 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

43 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Pearl Grange between 2018 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 13 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000455 - 2019
7 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000399 - 2019
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 238 - 2019
19 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000425 - 2019
11 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000409 - 2019
8 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON HARBOR FD 206 - 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 196 - 2020

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
Spinks Corners	2.0 miles	10
Millburg	2.4 miles	10
Benton Center	2.5 miles	11
Sodus	3.3 miles	10
Orchard View Estates	3.7 miles	11
Benton Heights	3.8 miles	10
Twelve Corners	3.8 miles	10
Kings Landing	3.9 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 Q122562031

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 634525. 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.