Preston Corners, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Shelby Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48315. It stands on Yates Drain. The Survey maps it on the Waldenburg quadrangle.

Preston Corners within Macomb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1912 USGS Mt Clemens quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt Clemens quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1936 USGS Waldenburg quadrangle1:31680
1952 USGS Mt Clemens quadrangle1:62500
1952 USGS Waldenburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Waldenburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Lake St. Clair North quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

36 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Preston Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 35 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	17
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Debris and open burning	2
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
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0002381 - 2019
17 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0005593 - 2018
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0001684 - 2019
20 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003374 - 2019
14 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0001517 - 2019
9 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0002731 - 2019
7 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0004123 - 2019
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0002741 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macomb 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
Macomb	1.9 miles	17
Rudgate East Company Mobile Home Park	2.0 miles	18
Disco	2.3 miles	18
Washington	2.7 miles	18
Shelby	2.8 miles	18
Davis	2.9 miles	17
Waldenburg	4.2 miles	17
Utica	5.4 miles	18

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 Q122597069

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 635439. 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.