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Sebewa Corners, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Danby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48890. The Survey maps it on the Portland South quadrangle.

Sebewa Corners within Ionia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Sebewa Corners between 1992 and 2019, burning about 9 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019191 - 2019
17 June 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORTLAND AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 0000038 - 2019
3 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019079 - 2019
28 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2019106 - 2019
17 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUNFIELD FD 2018071 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ionia County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sebewa Corners: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Lawson Clay PitClayPast Producer
Grumfield Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ionia Co. Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ionia County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sebewa Corners in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 4 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
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSebewa Corners$5,000Several power lines were blown down in Sebewa.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSebewa Corners$1,000A county official reported that one tree was blown down near Sebewa Corners.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSebewa Corners-A large tree was snapped off by estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSebewa Corners-Several trees were blown down by wires by estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Ionia 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
Portland5.6 miles10
Frost Corners5.6 miles10
West Sebewa6.0 miles13
Collins9.0 miles10
Tremaine Corners9.4 miles12
Lake Odessa9.7 miles12
Berlin Center11.7 miles12
Lyons12.6 miles10

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 Q122540163The 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 637511. 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.