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Baltic, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49963. The Survey maps it on the South Range quadrangle.

Baltic within Houghton County

On record in Baltic

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Baltic between 1994 and 2019, burning about 14 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
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
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANCOCK FD 0000025 - 2018
8 May 1994Debris and open burning7.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDA
24 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURONTOWN FIRE/RESCUE 0000023 - 2018
14 April 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 October 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Baltic: 32 past producers, 12 prospects, 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Sturgeon Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Isle RoyaleCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1853
Isle Royale AmygdaloidCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1968
Isle Royale MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1853, 1885
SuperiorCopper, SilverPast Producer1904, 1908
Baltic PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dodgeville Pit and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
G and S Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gedvillas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Houghton Co Road Commission PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baltic in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 2 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBaltic$10,000Social media report of pea-sized hail and a photo of damage to the roof of a building. The report also indicated downed tree branches in the area. Time of the delayed report was estimated from radar.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBaltic-Many trees down.

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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
South Range0.5 miles19
Mill Mine Junction1.5 miles19
Trimountain1.7 miles19
Superior2.0 miles19
Atlantic Mine2.1 miles19
Painesdale2.7 miles19
Champion Mine3.0 miles19
Dodgeville3.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620532. 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.