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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.

Copper Harbor within Keweenaw County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Copper 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.

YearPeople Change
2010108
2020136+28 (+26%)

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

1 since 2001

Regional 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/incendiarism1

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 May 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clark Manganese DepositManganesePast Producer1881
Aetna Copper MineCopperPast Producer
Aetna Exploration Copper MineCopperPast Producer1864, 1867
Bluff Wyoming MineCopperPast Producer1865
Cape MineCopperPast Producer1854
ClarkCopperPast Producer1872, 1879
Empire Copper MineCopperPast Producer
Girard ExplorationCopperProspect1864, 1865
Hanover MineCopperPast Producer1852
Hays Mine (Pittsburgh & Boston)CopperPast ProducerFissure Copper Veins

Every working recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994HailCopper Harbor$5,000Hail 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 1994Thunderstorm WindCopper Harbor$5,000Hail 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 2007Thunderstorm WindCopper Harbor$3,000Many trees and branches downed along the highway.
August 2003Tornado (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 2003Thunderstorm WindCopper Harbor-Three trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Keweenaw 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
Bete Grise6.6 miles12
Mandan7.4 miles23
Lac La Belle9.0 miles23
Wyoming10.9 miles23
Delaware11.5 miles23
Nepco Camp Number 714.3 miles14
Eagle Harbor14.5 miles14
Betsy14.9 miles14

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 HarborAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5168735The 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.