Coalwood, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Au Train Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49862. The Survey maps it on the Powell Lake quadrangle.

Coalwood within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Munising quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Powell Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Coalwood between 1992 and 2016, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	BENT HORN CABIN
15 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	OTTER LAKE
24 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	LOST LAKE ISLAND
23 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	not named
20 June 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	MIRROR
20 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	COALWOOD
11 June 2006	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	LOST LAKE
1 June 2010	Natural	14 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	LOST LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Coalwood: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Shaw and Lobb Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Alger 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stillman	1.0 miles	11
Vail	2.2 miles	11
Munising Junction	2.9 miles	11
Forest Lake	5.6 miles	11
Dixon	6.5 miles	11
Wetmore	6.5 miles	12
Munising	6.6 miles	11
Christmas	6.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619541. 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.