Amasa, Michigan

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

• Joseph Bowers Houselisted 1983
• Jacob Jacobson Houselisted 1983
• Amasa Historic Business Districtlisted 1983
• Park City Historic Districtlisted 1983
• Triangle Ranch Headquarters Historic Districtlisted 1983

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.

• 1899 USGS Crystal Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Amasa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Amasa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
• 1989 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Amasa between 1993 and 2018, burning about 50 acres in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Gibson Lake
• Balsam
• Erickson Landing
• New Bristol Location

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Amasa: 10 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Every working recorded in Iron County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amasa in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Iron County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620044. 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.