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Delaware, Michigan

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49950. The Survey maps it on the Delaware quadrangle.

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Delaware within Keweenaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Delaware between 2002 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 May 2015Natural5.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON GAP
23 May 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2020Debris and open burning2.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBINGHAM RD
18 October 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAGLE HARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000011 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Delaware: 28 past producers, 10 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, 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
Keweenaw County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Central Cu MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
Evergreen SeriesCopper, SilverPast Producer1848
543-S DepositCopperProducer1996
813 - Mt. Bohemia WestCopperProspectChalcocite
Agate Harbor MineCopperPast Producer1846, 1854
Amygdaloid Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Arnold Copper MineCopperPast Producer1860, 1900
Arnold Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Central ExplorationCopperPast Producer1930, 1934, 1945

Every working recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delaware in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2023FloodDelaware$1,000,000Local media reported Highway M-26 was closed on the evening of the 22nd due to the collapse of a retaining wall at the Silver River Bridge in Keweenaw County. The bridge's already compromised stone retaining wall eroded due to the heavy runoff from spring snow melt forcing the closure of Highway M-26. Traffic has been rerouted along US Highway 41. While MDOT was already planning on a $2.9 million project to remove and replace the bridge this summer, the snowmelt runoff contributed to the bridge failure closing the road sooner than anticipated.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDelaware$4,000The 911 dispatcher said they received numerous reports from across the county about downed trees blocking the road. Most of the trees were approximately 6 inches to 1 foot in diameter.

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
Wyoming0.7 miles23
Nepco Camp Number 72.9 miles14
Mandan4.3 miles23
Eagle Harbor4.4 miles14
Lac La Belle4.8 miles23
Copper Falls5.5 miles14
Central5.6 miles14
Bete Grise7.8 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 DelawareAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5253205The 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 624524. 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.