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Auvinen Corner, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Ironwood Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49911. It stands on Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Copper Peak quadrangle.

Auvinen Corner within Gogebic County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Auvinen Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 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
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 September 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBESSEMER FD 0200913 - 2020
10 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2012Naturalunder an acreOttawa National ForestMARGARET
1 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan 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 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Auvinen Corner: 24 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gogebic County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cebolski PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Globe Industries Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Les Johnson Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Uno Talo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wedenoja PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Anvil-Palms-Keeweenaw GroupIronPast Producer1886, 1887
Anvil-Palms-Keweenaw GroupIronPast Producer1887, 1957
Colby MineIronPast Producer1884, 1923
Colby MineIronPast Producer1884

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
North Bessemer1.8 miles9
Siemens3.1 miles11
Hautala Corner3.2 miles9
North Ironwood3.2 miles9
Bessemer3.5 miles11
Hillcrest3.7 miles14
Yale4.1 miles11
Jessieville4.9 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122569757The 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 1617426. 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.