BlockConnorville, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Wakefield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49968. It stands on Connor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thomaston quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Ontonagon quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:25000
- 1999 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Connorville between 1995 and 2012, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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 use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | LONE PINE |
| 23 April 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ottawa National Forest | JOHNSON ROAD |
| 17 October 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 October 1995 | Debris and open burning | 7.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Connorville: 8 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Lead Prospect | Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Castile-Meteor Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Secondary Enrichment | |
| Chicago Mines (Sparta) | Iron | Past Producer | 1892, 1915 | |
| Chicago- Includes Former Sparta | Iron | Past Producer | 1892 | |
| Iron Ore Outcrop | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Iron Ore Outcrop | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Pike Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Secondary Enrichment | |
| South Chicago | Iron | Past Producer | 1915 | |
| South Chicago Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Secondary Enrichment | |
| Sunday Lake Group | Iron | Past Producer | 1885 |
Storms near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Connorville in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Connorville | $50,000 | Numerous trees were reported down in Porcupine Mountains State Park from thunderstorm winds. A cabin was also reportedly destroyed. |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | Connorville | $4,000 | Gogebic County Sheriff's department reported that a portion of Highway US-2 was flooded with stranded vehicles. Highway US-2 was closed from Douglas Boulevard to Lowell Street. Law enforcement also reported a downed power line nearby in Ironwood. Nearly an inch and a half of rainfall from thunderstorms over a three-hour period caused the flooding. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Connorville | $500 | A spotter reported a few poplar trees and several small branches knocked down from Black River Harbor to Ironwood and Wakefield. Time of the event was estimated from radar. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619565. 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.