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Springfield Place, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Battle Creek City. It lies in ZIP code area 49015. It lies near Ward Island. The Survey maps it on the Battle Creek quadrangle.

Springfield Place within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

77 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Springfield Place between 2006 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 14 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 use37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural14
Smoking4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 01205 - 2019
22 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00971 - 2020
21 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05331 - 2018
13 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05179 - 2018
8 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00986 - 2019
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05036 - 2019
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03805 - 2018
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03770 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Springfield Place: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Calhoun Co Pit Bill Smith S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Calhoun County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dickman Road Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dickman Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoffman Brothers Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rays Aggregates CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springfield Place in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Springfield Place$2,000,000The tornado touched down near the intersection of Capitol Avenue and East Stafford Avenue just east of Goguac Lake and moved east just missing Riverside Elementary School and then moving along Chapel Hill Drive where it reached its peak intensity. The tornado then weakened as it moved across Interstate 194 before finally dissipating as it crossed 6 1/2 mile road. Three houses and Chapel Hill Methodist Church suffered partial loss of their roofs which along with approximately 100 snapped and uprooted trees resulted in a rating of EF1 along Chapel Hill Drive. The remainder of the track was rated EF0 where clusters of trees were uprooted or snapped with only minor damage occurring to houses in the path.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindSpringfield Place$20,000Fourteen trees were blown down in the north side of the city of Battle Creek.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSpringfield Place-Multiple mature trees down blocking roads.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSpringfield Place-Severe storms produced wind gusts of up to around 60 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSpringfield Place-A gust front surged well ahead of a weakening line of convection, and as it swept through Calhoun county, a trained spotter measured a 66 mph wind gust on a hand held anemometer at 24th street and Territorial. Additionally, the ASOS weather station located 1 mile NW of Battle Creek measured a wind gust of 51 mph.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindSpringfield Place-A 59 knot gust was estimated near Battle Creek.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSpringfield Place-A 56 knot measured wind gust was recorded at Springfield Place.
June 2008HailSpringfield Place-A trained spotter just west of Springfield Place reported a mix of nickel and pea sized hail.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindSpringfield Place-A 54 knot wind gust was estimated in Battle Creek.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Lakeview0.8 miles18
Springfield1.6 miles18
Battle Creek2.3 miles18
Sunrise Heights2.5 miles18
Orchard Park2.9 miles18
Old Mill Gardens3.0 miles18
Urbandale3.3 miles18
Verona Park3.7 miles18

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 Q122563770The 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 638625. 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.