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Tift Corner, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Croton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49337. The Survey maps it on the Tift Corner quadrangle.

Tift Corner within Newaygo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

116 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Tift Corner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 579 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 were 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
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROTON TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2020
19 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTEREX
11 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROTON TOWNSHIP FD 144 - 2020
9 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestLONE TREE
9 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesASHLAND-GRANT FIRE DISTRICT 257 - 2020
9 July 2005Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCEMETARY FIRE
5 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWAYGO 05
5 July 2018Arson/incendiarism105 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEWAYGO 04

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newaygo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tift Corner: 1 producer. All of them 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
Cousineau Gravel, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Newaygo 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
Croton3.6 miles12
Riverview3.9 miles12
Ensley Center4.0 miles12
Croton Heights4.2 miles12
Oxbow6.0 miles12
Sun7.3 miles12
Oxbow Park7.8 miles13
Big Prairie8.5 miles13

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 Q122551650The 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 1621912. 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.