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Dodgeville, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Portage Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49921. The Survey maps it on the Chassell quadrangle.

Dodgeville within Houghton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Dodgeville between 1995 and 2019, burning about 430 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOLLAR BAY VFD 0000012 - 2019
12 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2002Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANCOCK FD 0000025 - 2018
6 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICE LAKE
14 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesQUINCY-FRANKLIN-HANCOCK VFD 2019006 - 2019
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Dodgeville: 41 past producers, 14 prospects, 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver. 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
Sturgeon Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Isle Royale AmygdaloidCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1968
Isle Royale MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1853, 1885
Pewabic AmygdaloidCopper, SilverPast Producer1857, 1931
Isle RoyaleCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1853
QuincyCopper, SilverPast Producer1856
Quincy MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1856, 1925
SuperiorCopper, SilverPast Producer1904, 1908
G and S Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gedvillas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dodgeville in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDodgeville$5,000Widespread power outages were reported across Houghton County by UPPCO, especially from Houghton to Calumet.

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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
Hurontown1.2 miles19
Superior1.6 miles19
Houghton2.0 miles19
Hancock2.3 miles22
Atlantic Mine2.5 miles19
Ripley2.7 miles22
Franklin Mine3.2 miles22
Pewabic3.3 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 624736. 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.