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Carbondale, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Menominee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49893. It stands on Big Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wallace quadrangle.

Carbondale within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Carbondale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 122 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Natural1
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
5 September 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2018Debris and open burning1.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRANGE LINE ROAD
1 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMELLEN TOWNSHIP FD 0000019 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Carbondale: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
B & K PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boonies Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bridge Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cow Chip Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Edwards Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Menominee County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Slawinski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sobieski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wayside Park Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carbondale in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 3 hail, 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindCarbondale$2,000Several trees and many branches were knocked down. One downed tree was greater than one foot in diameter. A large poplar tree was also snapped.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCarbondale$1,000A spotter southeast of Wallace reported a couple of trees down from thunderstorm winds.
August 2008HailCarbondale-Hail caused damage to cars.
August 2008HailCarbondale-Hail was estimated to be two inches in diameter.
August 2008HailCarbondale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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
Hansen2.7 miles9
Wallace3.3 miles8
Birch Creek5.2 miles9
Eagles Nest6.1 miles9
Ingallston6.6 miles9
Ingalls6.8 miles8
Johnson Landing8.0 miles9
Kew8.3 miles9

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 CarbondaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19600663The 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 1617474. 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.