Tompkins, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Tompkins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49277. It stands on Sandstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parma quadrangle.

Tompkins within Jackson County

On record in Tompkins

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

M-50-Sandstone Creek Bridgelisted 2000

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1919 USGS Springport quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1921 USGS Springport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Parma quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

33 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Tompkins between 2018 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 611 - 2020
6 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BLACKMAN-LEONI TOWNSHIP DPS 15461 - 2019
31 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PARMA-SANDSTONE FD 428 - 2020
8 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PARMA-SANDSTONE FD 0000182 - 2018
6 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 158 - 2019
5 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RIVES-TOMPKINS FD 225 - 2020
4 April 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 61 - 2019
3 April 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SPRINGPORT/CLARENCE TWP. FD 71 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Minards Mill	2.5 miles	12
Berryville	3.6 miles	11
Rives Junction	4.3 miles	11
Springport	8.3 miles	12
Sandstone	8.5 miles	12
Woodville	8.5 miles	12
Parma	8.5 miles	12
Devereaux	9.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1614946. 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.