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Central, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Houghton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49950. It stands on Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Harbor quadrangle.

Central within Keweenaw County

On record in Central

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Central between 2002 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAGLE HARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000008 - 2019
3 June 2002Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2015Natural5.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON GAP
25 April 2020Debris and open burning2.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBINGHAM RD
8 October 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSW GRATIOT LAKE
18 October 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAGLE HARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Central: 37 past producers, 12 prospects, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, Silver, 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
Keweenaw County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Phoenix AshbedCopper, SilverPast Producer1855
Central Cu MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
Phoenix Cu MineCopper, SilverProducer
Phoenix Fissure MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1844, 1931
543-SCopperProducer1975
Amygdaloid Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Arnold Copper MineCopperPast Producer1860, 1900
Arnold Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Babbitt FissureCopperProducer1880

Every working recorded in Keweenaw 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
Copper Falls1.6 miles14
Nepco Camp Number 73.0 miles14
Eagle Harbor4.1 miles14
Eagle Nest4.1 miles13
Phoenix4.3 miles13
Eagle River5.1 miles13
Vaughnsville5.4 miles13
Delaware5.6 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622986. 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.