South Butler, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49082. The Survey maps it on the Tekonsha quadrangle.

South Butler within Branch 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.

1948 USGS Homer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Homer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Tekonsha quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of South Butler between 2018 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 2 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	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
4 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 95 - 2018
19 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LITCHFIELD FD 2020-63 - 2020
18 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 76 - 2020
1 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 64 - 2020
6 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 51 - 2020
9 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 49 - 2019
6 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	QUINCY FD 46 - 2019
20 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LITCHFIELD FD 2018-20 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Branch 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
Butler	2.7 miles	11
Quincy	5.4 miles	10
Girard	6.2 miles	14
Trailtree Village	7.3 miles	10
Coldwater	8.3 miles	10
Hodunk	9.4 miles	14
Fisher	9.5 miles	10
Stringtown	9.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 638327. 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.