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Twelve Corners, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1970. It stands in Benton Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49022. It stands on Granger Drain. The Survey maps it on the Benton Heights quadrangle.

Twelve Corners within Berrien 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

60 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Twelve Corners between 2018 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 12 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 use35
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony2

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
7 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000455 - 2019
24 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 163 - 2020
7 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000399 - 2019
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON HARBOR FD 293 - 2020
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 140 - 2020
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON HARBOR FD 238 - 2019
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000425 - 2019
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000409 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien 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 Twelve Corners: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Berrien Sand QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Benton Center1.4 miles11
Benton Heights1.8 miles10
Millburg2.5 miles10
Riverside2.7 miles10
Mizpah Park3.3 miles10
Pearl Grange3.8 miles10
Orchard View Estates4.1 miles11
Benton Harbor4.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1615219. 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.