Copper Harbor, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49918. It stands on Garden Brook. The Survey maps it on the Lake Medora quadrangle. 136 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 605 feet above sea level.
On record in Copper Harbor
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 5 records
Copper Harbor Light Stationlisted 2012
Fort Wilkinslisted 1970
Gull Rock Light Stationlisted 1984
Keweenaw Mountain Lodge and Golf Course Complexlisted 1980
Manitou Island Light Stationlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresCopper Harbor grew from 108 to 136 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 108 | |
| 2020 | 136 | +28 (+26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1940 USGS Lake Medora quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Lake Medora quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Lake Medora quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Copper Harbor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Copper Harbor in 2001, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 26 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Copper Harbor: 16 past producers, 9 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clark Manganese Deposit | Manganese | Past Producer | 1881 | |
| Aetna Copper Mine | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Aetna Exploration Copper Mine | Copper | Past Producer | 1864, 1867 | |
| Bluff Wyoming Mine | Copper | Past Producer | 1865 | |
| Cape Mine | Copper | Past Producer | 1854 | |
| Clark | Copper | Past Producer | 1872, 1879 | |
| Empire Copper Mine | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Girard Exploration | Copper | Prospect | 1864, 1865 | |
| Hanover Mine | Copper | Past Producer | 1852 | |
| Hays Mine (Pittsburgh & Boston) | Copper | Past Producer | Fissure Copper Veins |
Storms near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copper Harbor in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2007: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Hail | Copper Harbor | $5,000 | Hail damage reported to vehicle windshields and a metal roof of a store. Winds blew down trees and power lines between Eagle River and Copper Harbor. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copper Harbor | $5,000 | Hail damage reported to vehicle windshields and a metal roof of a store. Winds blew down trees and power lines between Eagle River and Copper Harbor. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copper Harbor | $3,000 | Many trees and branches downed along the highway. |
| August 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Copper Harbor | - | A waterspout over Lake Superior moved onshore at Silver Island just off the shore from Eagle Harbor. The tornado knocked down a tree on the island before it dissipated. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copper Harbor | - | Three trees were blown down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bete Grise | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Mandan | 7.4 miles | 23 | |
| Lac La Belle | 9.0 miles | 23 | |
| Wyoming | 10.9 miles | 23 | |
| Delaware | 11.5 miles | 23 | |
| Nepco Camp Number 7 | 14.3 miles | 14 | |
| Eagle Harbor | 14.5 miles | 14 | |
| Betsy | 14.9 miles | 14 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Copper Harbor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5168735 | The 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 623809. 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.







