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Aurora, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Ironwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 49938. The Survey maps it on the Ironwood quadrangle.

Aurora within Gogebic County

On record in Aurora

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Aurora between 1993 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBESSEMER FD 0200913 - 2020
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 2 HWY 51 EXCHANGE
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
28 July 2006Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gogebic County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Aurora: 32 past producers, 7 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Iron. 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
Montreal MineManganese, IronPast Producer1886
Gogebic County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hurley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
City of Ironwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Globe Industries Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hurley Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Katie Saari PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Koehmstedt Rd PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gogebic 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
Jessieville0.9 miles14
Norrie0.9 miles14
Ironwood1.4 miles14
Siemens2.9 miles11
Hillcrest3.0 miles14
North Ironwood4.3 miles9
Yale4.6 miles11
Hautala Corner5.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620353. 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.