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Eagle Harbor, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eagle Harbor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49950. It stands on Eliza Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Harbor quadrangle.

Eagle Harbor within Keweenaw County

On record in Eagle 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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Harbor between 2002 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
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
3 June 2002Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2015Natural5.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON GAP
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 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Eagle Harbor: 29 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Central Cu MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
Keweenaw County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Amygdaloid Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Arnold Copper MineCopperPast Producer1860, 1900
Arnold Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Central ExplorationCopperPast Producer1930, 1934, 1945
Central MineCopperPast Producer1854, 1898
Childs Fissure MineCopperPast Producer1852, 1860
Connecticut FissureCopperPast ProducerCopper
Copper FallsCopperPast Producer1862, 1877

Every working recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Harbor in 1 storm report in 2002: 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindEagle Harbor-Trees were downed at Eagle Harbor, Lac La Belle, Copper Harbor, Gay and Eagle River.

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
Copper Falls2.7 miles14
Nepco Camp Number 73.9 miles14
Central4.1 miles14
Delaware4.4 miles23
Wyoming5.1 miles23
Eagle Nest7.0 miles13
Eagle River7.7 miles13
Phoenix7.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 625075. 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.