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Ahmeek, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Allouez Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49901. It stands on Fulton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ahmeek quadrangle. 127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Ahmeek within Keweenaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Ahmeek fell from 146 to 127 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010146
2020127-19 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ahmeek between 1993 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRATIOT RIVER
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALUMET VILLAGE FD 0081219 - 2019
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAHMEEK FD 0200024 - 2020
5 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSLASHER
5 June 1993Smoking1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLOUEZ TOWNSHIP FD 0061419 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Ahmeek: 53 past producers, 10 prospects, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver. 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
Gratiot Copper MineSilver, CopperPast ProducerCopper
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspectSulfides
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspect
MohawkCopper, ArsenicPast Producer1898, 1902
Mohawkite FissureCopper, ArsenicPast Producer1900, 1901
Centennial No.2Copper, SilverPast Producer1863, 1904
IroquoisCopper, SilverPast Producer1942, 1956
WolverineCopper, SilverPast Producer1882, 1898
Haltunen Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Keweenaw County Pit Number 21Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Keweenaw 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
Allouez1.1 miles14
Bumbletown1.4 miles14
Mohawk1.7 miles15
Fulton1.9 miles15
Seneca2.1 miles15
Ojibway4.6 miles15
Hebards5.3 miles15
Traverse7.6 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on AhmeekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2428628The 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 619873. 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.