Spinks Corners, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1970. It stands in Bainbridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49022. The Survey maps it on the Sodus quadrangle.

Spinks Corners 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

16 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Spinks Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 109 - 2019
2 May 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 52 - 2018
12 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 65 - 2020
7 April 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAU CLAIRE FD 39 - 2019
23 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000160 - 2018
20 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000185 - 2019
30 March 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000123 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spinks Corners in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Spinks Corners	-	A few trees down in northern Berrien County.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Spinks Corners	-	Amateur radio reported trees and power lines down at SR 152 and 140 or 2 miles east of Spinks Corner.

Every storm 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
Pearl Grange	2.0 miles	10
Napier	2.1 miles	10
Millburg	2.3 miles	10
Bainbridge Center	2.6 miles	10
Benton Center	3.7 miles	11
Shanghai Corners	4.2 miles	10
Sodus	4.3 miles	10
Naomi	4.4 miles	10

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 Q122558838

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 638515. 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.

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.