Fields and pasture account for about 75% of the surrounding area.
- Developed land: 21.7%
- Fields and pasture: 74.8%
- Woodland: 1.7%
- Wetlands: 1.7%
Railroad crossing 283561U on PRIVATE in Battle Creek, Michigan
The federal record lists a private crossing on PRIVATE in Battle Creek, Michigan. The reported railroad is GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC..
Overview
Crossing283561U
PRIVATE
Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Michigan
GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD INC.
Source retrieved Source details
- Road traffic
- 1 vehicles / dayRoad count: counted 1970 · 56 years old. About traffic counts and years
- Reported trains
- 15 / dayThese reported movements are not arrival times.
Location
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- Source latitude
- 42.38217
- Source longitude
- -85.07937
Traffic
- Road traffic
- 1 vehicles / day
- Road count year
- 1970counted 1970 · 56 years old
- Reported train total
- 15 / day
- Daytime trains
- 9 / day
- Nighttime trains
- 6 / day
- Switching trains
- 0 / day
- Passenger trains
- 2 / day
- School bus route
- No
- School-bus passes
- Not reported / school day
- Maximum rail speed
- 65 mph
- Road speed limit
- 0 mph
The daily train total combines reported daytime, nighttime and switching movements. These reported movements are not arrival times. How reported train totals work. A school bus that crosses and returns counts as two passes on a normal school day.
Equipment
- Gate arms
- 0
- Flashing-light pairs
- 0
- Crossbuck assemblies
- 0
- Stop signs
- 0
How warning equipment is recorded
- Main tracks
- 2
- Quiet-zone source value
- No
All equipment counts are reported. Zero is shown only when the source reports zero.
Open the federal crossing recordIncidents
No incident report was matched to this crossing in the available records from 2016 through July 2026. Earlier or unreported incidents may not be included.
Open the federal incident recordsProjects
Project documents
No reviewed document names this crossing
The reviewed sources do not name this crossing. Other projects may exist.
Surroundings
The surrounding landscape
Nearby land cover
The 2025 estimates cover roughly 10 hectares around each crossing.
Population and climate nearby
- Modeled population in this map cell
- No WorldPop cell at this location · WorldPop 2025
- Regional surface elevation
- 291 m
- Average annual air temperature
- 9.3 °C
- Average annual rain & snow
- 1,037 mm/year
Regional sample 3.5 km from the reported crossing location. Climate averages cover 1979–2020.
What these figures describe
Population in the map cell comes from a 2025 WorldPop model, grouped into a hexagon containing the reported crossing coordinate. It is not a count of people who use the crossing. Unavailable estimates remain unknown.
Regional values use the nearest sample at roughly 5 km scale. Elevation dates from 2011–2015. They do not describe exact conditions at the crossing.
Sources and methods ↗Nearby records
These records are within 5 km of the reported location. Distances are straight-line estimates.