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Clowry, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Champion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49814. It stands on Second River. The Survey maps it on the Champion quadrangle.

Clowry within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Clowry between 1995 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDIORITE
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 August 2015Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST. ANTHONY
14 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISHPEMING TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000058 - 2019
1 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Clowry: 30 past producers, 8 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Molybdenum, Gold, Feldspar. 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
Republic Feldspar QuarryFeldsparPast Producer
Unnamed Copper&Molybdenum ProspectCopper, MolybdenumOccurrence
Unnamed Mineral ProspectMolybdenum, Gold, Copper, Bismuth, TungstenOccurrence
Unnamed Uranium ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed Gold ProspectGoldOccurrence
Unnamed Gold ProspectGoldOccurrence
Unnamed Molybdenum ProspectMolybdenumOccurrence
Unnamed Molybdenum ProspectMolybdenumOccurrence
American MineIronPast Producer1844, 1880, 1922
American MineIronPast Producer1880

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clowry in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2018Flash FloodClowry$10,000Rainfall amounts between two and three inches over approximately five hours caused flooding of several roads from Marquette and Harvey to Negaunee. The Marquette County Road Commission reported the washout and closure of a portion of County Road 601 in Humboldt Township due to the heavy rains. A NWS employee reported the closure of Lakeshore Boulevard in Marquette due to mud and debris flowing over the street. Several other streets were reported closed in Marquette due to water over the roads. Rescue personnel from the Chocolay Fire and Sheriff departments were evacuating residences along Green Garden Road at the Chocolay River Bridge southeast of Harvey. There was also a picture via social media of water under the bridge in Negaunee, and several residences in Negaunee reported water in the basements due to the heavy rain.
June 2022HailClowry-Report of nickel-sized hail in Humboldt Township.

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Humboldt2.0 miles12
Humboldt Mine2.7 miles12
Wobic3.2 miles15
Clarksburg3.3 miles13
Champion3.5 miles15
Diorite3.7 miles15
Snowville4.5 miles13
Martins Landing4.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617493. 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.