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Stoughton Corners, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Hartford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49057. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle.

Stoughton Corners within Van Buren 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.

Fires near this place

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Stoughton Corners between 1996 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 use23
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 415 - 2020
12 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 425 - 2019
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 419 - 2019
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 334 - 2020
25 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 255 - 2020
14 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARTFORD FD 294 - 2020
9 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOVERT FD 200166 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stoughton Corners: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Acolliney Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Van Buren County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Van Buren 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
Hartford1.6 miles10
McDonald2.5 miles11
Toquin3.6 miles11
West Bangor5.5 miles11
Lawrence6.1 miles10
Friendsville6.2 miles11
Bangor6.4 miles11
Covert6.7 miles11

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 Q122589303The 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 638928. 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.