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Wrights Corners, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Fredonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49068. The Survey maps it on the Lyon Lake quadrangle.

Wrights Corners within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

21 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Wrights Corners between 2004 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDONIA TOWNSHIP FD 106 - 2019
31 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDONIA TOWNSHIP FD 103 - 2019
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 182 - 2020
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL TOWNSHIP FD 181 - 2020
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL FD 00483 - 2018
10 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARSHALL FD 00500 - 2018
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARENGO TOWNSHIP FD 0000045 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTEKONSHA FD 2019079 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wrights Corners: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Cat Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schaeffer Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yerington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Yerington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wrights Corners in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailWrights Corners-One inch diameter hail fell from an isolated severe storm.
October 2021Funnel CloudWrights Corners-Local law enforcement spotted a funnel cloud south of Marshall.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Marshall4.7 miles14
Eckford5.1 miles12
Ceresco7.1 miles18
Clarendon7.2 miles12
Marengo7.6 miles15
Tekonsha7.7 miles11
Bentleys Corners8.6 miles11
Babcock8.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616845. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.