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Chicagon, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bates Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49935. The Survey maps it on the Gaastra quadrangle.

Chicagon within Iron County

On record in Chicagon

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

8 surveys from 12 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Chicagon between 1995 and 2019, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
15 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1995Debris and open burning4.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL FALLS FIRE AUTHORITY 0001930 - 2019
24 May 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSTATE PARK
14 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAMARACK
12 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL FALLS FIRE AUTHORITY 0001814 - 2018
22 April 2017Arson/incendiarism9.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATES TWP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 180 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 180 workings within 5 miles of Chicagon: 167 prospects, 8 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Sherwood MineAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1851, 1943
Iron County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oss PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Baker MineIronPast Producer1909
Bates Exploration C2IronProspect
Bates Exploration C3IronProspect
Bates Prospect C-25IronProspect
Bates Prospect C1IronProspect
Bates Prospect C10IronProspect
Bates Prospect C17IronProspect

Every working recorded in Iron 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
Mapleton3.0 miles12
Rogers Location4.2 miles12
Fortune Lake4.8 miles13
Bates Junction5.1 miles12
Gaastra5.8 miles12
Bates Location5.9 miles12
Scott Lake6.3 miles12
Erickson Landing6.3 miles13

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 Q122573509The 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 1619487. 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.