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Austin, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Forsyth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49841. It stands on East Branch Escanaba River. The Survey maps it on the Gwinn quadrangle.

Austin within Marquette County

On record in Austin

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

8 surveys from 18 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Austin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural8
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAIRFIELD ROAD
10 August 2008Debris and open burning1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTIENBERG SPITTERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Austin: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1844, 1907, 1942
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1907, 1911
Austin MineIronPast Producer1844, 1905, 1929
Austin Mines Numbers 1 and 2IronPast Producer1903, 1905
Cleveland Cliffs Iron MineIronPast Producer
FrancisIronPast Producer1893
Francis MineIronPast Producer1844, 1893, 1939
Gardner-MackinawIronPast Producer1911, 1919
Gardner-Mackinaw MineIronPast Producer1844, 1919, 1941
Mackinaw-Gardner Iron MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austin in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAustin$20,000UPPCO outage map showed more than a thousand customers without power in the area west of Gwinn with most power outages concentrated around Shag Lake. This is a delayed report with time estimated from radar.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAustin$5,000Multiple power outages were reported in the Forsyth and Richmond townships of Marquette County. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAustin$3,000Numerous power outages reported in the Little Shag Lake area west of Gwinn. Additional multiple outages were also reported in Princeton and Forsyth Township.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAustin$2,000Multiple power outages reported in and around Gwinn, Sawyer, Republic, Dead River Basin and near the Greenwood Reservoir. Report was from utility outage map and time was estimated from radar.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAustin$2,000Trees observed down on roadway west of Gwinn. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAustin$2,000Marquette County Dispatch reported a power line down across Highway M-35 between Chipmunk Field and the Cataract Basin Drive west of Princeton. The time of the report was estimated from radar.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindAustin$1,000Local law enforcement reported power lines down three miles northwest of Gwinn.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAustin-Numerous 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches down. Time was estimated from radar.

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Gwinn0.9 miles18
Princeton1.0 miles18
New Swanzy1.7 miles18
Plains4.0 miles18
Swanzy4.6 miles14
K I Sawyer5.3 miles18
Little Lake6.1 miles14
Sands9.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620355. 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.