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Crystal Falls, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Crystal Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 49920. It stands on Briar Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crystal Falls quadrangle. 1,598 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.

Crystal Falls within Iron County

On record in Crystal Falls

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 12 of 18 shown

Every listing in Iron County

Population over time

2 figures

Crystal Falls grew from 1,469 to 1,598 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
20101,469
20201,598+129 (+9%)

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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Falls between 1992 and 2019, burning about 61 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Natural1

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
25 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIND ROAD
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0006
11 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 182 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 182 workings within 5 miles of Crystal Falls: 69 past producers, 62 occurrences, 49 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Paint Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1882, 1903
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1903
Armania MineIronPast Producer1889, 1914
Armenia MineIronPast Producer1889
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1882, 1935
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1913
Bird ExplorationIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1958

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

34 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Falls in 34 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 16 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2000Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls$3,000Falling tree crushed pick-up truck.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls$2,000Several one-foot diameter pine trees downed along Camp Five Road one mile south of Highway M-69. The damage path was approximately 0.6 mile in width.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls$1,000Large birch tree down across Way Dam Road. Also, a lot of small hail covering the ground.
September 2019LightningCrystal Falls$500There was a public report of a tree struck by lightning just northwest of Crystal Falls. The tree was estimated to be three and a half feet in diameter and split in pieces. Time of the report was estimated via ENTLN lightning data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls$500The Gogebic/Iron County Central Police Dispatch reported a tree down in Crystal Falls.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls$500A tree was reported down at 4th Street and Wisconsin Avenue.
April 2022FloodCrystal Falls-Snowmelt combined with a period of heavy rain resulted in brief period of minor flooding along the Paint River near Crystal Falls on the 26th.
April 2019FloodCrystal Falls-Gages Creek overflowed its banks onto private property east of Peavy Pond on April 19th. Minor flooding was also reported on the Paint and Michigamme Rivers from the 23rd into the 26th.
August 2015HailCrystal Falls-One inch diameter hail reported via social media picture at Crystal Falls.
August 2014Heavy RainCrystal Falls-The automated observing station near Crystal Falls measured 2.72 inches of rainfall in less than 24 hours.
October 2012Heavy RainCrystal Falls-The USGS rain gauge at Crystal Falls measured 2.37 inches of rainfall during the event.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Report of several trees down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Report of several trees down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-One to two-inch diameter branches down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Several 1-2 inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Two large trees down on Pentoga Trail in Crystal Falls Township.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Six to eight-inch tree branches broke and fell on power lines.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-A six-inch poplar tree and an eight-inch diameter evergreen tree were downed along Highway US-2.
April 2004HailCrystal Falls-Penny sized hail was reported.
April 2004HailCrystal Falls-Nickle sized hail was reported.
July 2004HailCrystal Falls-Three-quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
August 2004HailCrystal Falls-Quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Large branches were broken off.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Numerous trees were knocked down.
May 2002HailCrystal Falls-One and three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
May 2002HailCrystal Falls-One and three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
July 2002HailCrystal Falls-Penny sized hail was reported.
July 2002HailCrystal Falls-One and a quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
September 2002HailCrystal Falls-Three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-Three to four inch diameter tree branches were broken off.
December 2001HailCrystal Falls-Penny sized hail was reported.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCrystal Falls-wind gusts to 70 mph...large trees down
August 1998HailCrystal Falls-Small branches down.
June 1998HailCrystal Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Kimball Location0.7 miles12
Odgers Location0.8 miles12
Western Location1.1 miles12
Tobin Location1.2 miles12
Shafer Location1.5 miles12
Monongahela Location2.1 miles12
New Bristol Location2.8 miles13
Dunn Location3.0 miles12

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 Crystal FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2738898The 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 624170. 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.