BlockWoods Corners, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ronald Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48865. The Survey maps it on the Shiloh quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Shiloh quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cedar Springs quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Woods Corners between 1994 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 1 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 use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IONIA DPS 0000295 - 2019 |
| 22 July 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ORLEANS TOWNSHIP FD 0000096 - 2018 |
| 4 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RONALD TOWNSHIP VFD 0332018 - 2018 |
| 29 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ORLEANS TOWNSHIP FD 0000067 - 2018 |
| 22 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SHERIDAN COMMUNITY FD 2018032 - 2018 |
| 2 April 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 60 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CARSON CITY FD 201914 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616787. 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.