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East Kingsford, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Breitung Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49802. The Survey maps it on the Iron Mountain quadrangle.

East Kingsford within Dickinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of East Kingsford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 400 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Smoking4
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning3.6 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBLACK WALNUT
21 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000259 - 2018
17 September 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burning1.7 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBALZA
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBREITUNG TOWNSHIP FD 2019-44 - 2019
16 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON MOUNTAIN FD 0000174 - 2020
6 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY B DITCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson 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 East Kingsford: 21 past producers, 7 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Niagara Greenstone DepositStone, DimensionOccurrence
Caspian Const Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Caspian Const Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fayas Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Feeder Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jackie Foster, Inc. PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
M-35 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Menominee River Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Moon Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Niagara Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Dickinson 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
Kingsford0.4 miles11
Skidmore0.5 miles11
Iron Mountain1.7 miles11
White Birch Estates2.0 miles11
Antoine2.9 miles11
Quinnesec4.1 miles11
Merriman8.5 miles11
Norway8.5 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q118212173The 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 625204. 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.