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Calumet, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Calumet Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49913. The Survey maps it on the Laurium quadrangle. 621 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Calumet within Houghton County

On record in Calumet

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

Population over time

2 figures

Calumet fell from 726 to 621 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010726
2020621-105 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Calumet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
10 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE LINDEN FD 2019019 - 2019
7 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALUMET VILLAGE FD 0081219 - 2019
26 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUBBELL VFD 0724191 - 2019
2 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSLASHER
5 June 1993Smoking1.6 acresMichigan 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 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Calumet: 49 past producers, 9 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, Silver, Nickel, Copper. 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
Haltunen Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspectSulfides
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspect
Centennial No.2Copper, SilverPast Producer1863, 1904
WolverineCopper, SilverPast Producer1882, 1898
Allouez Conglomerate No 1 & 2Copper, SilverPast Producer1830
Centennial MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1869, 1920
Kearsarge AmygdaloidCopper, SilverPast Producer1887
Kearsarge MineCopper, SilverPast ProducerLode
La Salle MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1910, 1920

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calumet in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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
May 2011LightningCalumet$20,000Lightning struck and damaged the steeple tower of the Keweenaw Heritage Center at St. Anne's located in Calumet Township on the early morning of the 11th.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCalumet$5,000The 911 call center reported trees and power lines downed.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCalumet$1,000There was a public report of a metal shed flipped over in Calumet by thunderstorm winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCalumet$1,000Approximately 2-foot diameter pine tree was uprooted in the backyard of a house on Rockland Street. The tree was lying in a north-northeast direction. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCalumet$500There was a report via social media of a large tree down at Lake View Cemetery in Calumet. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
May 2024HailCalumet-Reports relayed through social media from the public, trained spotters and media partners of penny to quarter sized hail in Calumet.
June 2014HailCalumet-Quarter-sized hail was reported in Calumet.
September 2013Heavy RainCalumet-An automated rain gauge in the Calumet area measured two inches of rain in less than 45 minutes.
September 2007HailCalumet-One-half to three-quarter inch diameter hail reported.
July 2006HailCalumet-Hail fell in the Calumet/Laurium area.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCalumet-Large tree downed on power line.
June 2005Funnel CloudCalumet-Funnel cloud observed over Lake Superior near the Upper Entrance of Portage Canal.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCalumet-Several trees downed up to 12 inches in diameter.
May 2012HailCalumet-no account filed
April 2009HailCalumet-no account filed
July 2006HailCalumet-no account filed

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
Tamarack0.8 miles13
Laurium0.9 miles13
Swedetown0.9 miles13
Osceola1.1 miles13
Centennial Heights1.1 miles14
West Tamarack1.4 miles14
Centennial1.6 miles14
Lakeview2.1 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.

Wikipedia article on CalumetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2645447The 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 622468. 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.