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Eagle Mills, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Negaunee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49866. The Survey maps it on the Negaunee quadrangle.

Eagle Mills within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Mills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 42 acres in total. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
21 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCARP BRIDGE
28 August 2007Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMCCLURE BOAT LAUNCH
12 August 2006Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOWER PLANT
28 July 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEEJEE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 84 workings within 5 miles of Eagle Mills: 49 past producers, 19 occurrences, 10 prospects, 5 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Copper, 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
Lindberg QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Copper and Zinc DepositCopper, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed Lead ProspectLeadOccurrence
Unnamed Gold and Copper ProspectCopper, GoldOccurrence
Unnamed Gold and Copper ProspectCopper, GoldOccurrence
480 Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Herman Gunlach CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Krygorski Const CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Copper DepositCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Mills in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindEagle Mills$3,000Trees were reported down by law enforcement southwest of Trowbridge Park.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEagle Mills$1,000The Marquette County Central Dispatch reported a tree down on power lines off Midway Drive in Negaunee Township. The max wind gust at NWS Marquette was 47 mph just a few minutes prior to this damage report.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEagle Mills$1,000There were a couple of trees knocked down along County Road 492 between Marquette and Negaunee. The time of the delayed report was estimated from radar.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEagle Mills$500A tree was knocked down and blocked part of Highway M-35 near Negaunee just south of Highway US-41.
May 2018HailEagle Mills-Dime and penny sized hail were observed along Midway Drive and Marquette County Road 510.
October 2017HailEagle Mills-An NWS employee reported dime-sized hail west of Marquette along Highway US-41.

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Beverly Hills3.9 miles15
Negaunee4.2 miles15
Brookton Corners4.8 miles18
Cascade5.2 miles17
Palmer5.9 miles15
Trowbridge Park5.9 miles18
Forestville6.4 miles18
Pioneer Estates6.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 625090. 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.