Turner Shores, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Chikaming Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49116. The Survey maps it on the New Buffalo East quadrangle.

Turner Shores within Berrien County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1930 USGS Three Oaks quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Three Oaks quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS New Buffalo East quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Turner Shores between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 7 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	8
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	THREE OAKS FD 0000035 - 2019
27 September 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 175 - 2020
4 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0000201 - 2018
22 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 143 - 2019
12 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHIKAMING FD 322 - 2018
12 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHIKAMING FD 235 - 2019
7 June 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NEW BUFFALO TOWNSHIP FD 74 - 2019
22 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CHIKAMING FD 193 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien 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
Lakeside	0.9 miles	13
Harbert	1.8 miles	13
Hazelhurst	2.1 miles	12
Birchwood	2.2 miles	12
Hooks Corner	2.3 miles	13
Lakeview	2.6 miles	13
Union Pier	2.8 miles	13
Bethany Beach	3.1 miles	14

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 Q122546006

The 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 1615190. 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.