Spring Beach, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Penn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49031. It lies near Diamond Island. The Survey maps it on the Vandalia quadrangle.

Spring Beach within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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 Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1949 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Spring Beach between 2018 and 2020, burning about 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
20 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CASSOPOLIS VFD 0000120 - 2020
7 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000034 - 2018
3 April 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2019
3 April 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002395 - 2019
26 December 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000107 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Spring Beach: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cass Co Pit Lowitz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
West Rate Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Whit Pond Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cass 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
Diamond Shores	0.8 miles	16
Eagle Point	1.5 miles	16
Brownsville	2.0 miles	16
Vandalia	2.4 miles	16
Cassopolis	2.8 miles	14
Penn	3.0 miles	16
Calvin Center	4.4 miles	16
La Grange	5.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 638537. 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.