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Elmwood, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Stambaugh Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49935. The Survey maps it on the Golden Lake quadrangle.

Elmwood within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Elmwood between 1994 and 2012, burning about 2 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 ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Natural1

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOttawa National ForestSUPERIOR VIEW FIRE
11 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestCOOKS RUN 3
29 May 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestCOOKS BRIDGE 2
18 May 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestCOOKS RUN 2012
18 May 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestCOOKS RUN 2
14 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOttawa National Forestnot named
13 May 2005Naturalunder an acreOttawa National ForestTIMBER MARKER
11 May 2004Other causesunder an acreOttawa National ForestJAMES LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elmwood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Christiansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmwood in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 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 2008Thunderstorm WindElmwood$3,000Numerous eight to ten-inch diameter trees were knocked down. Some 12-inch diameter trees reported down along Highway 16.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindElmwood$2,000The Forest Service reported multiple large poplar and pine trees snapped at the tops along Forest Service highways FS-3320 and FS-3270. These roads were reportedly blocked, stranding a Forest Service truck for three to four hours. The time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2015HailElmwood-Dime sized hail reported near Golden Lake.
June 2014HailElmwood-There was a delayed report of golf ball sized hail near Golden Lake in Iron County. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2006HailElmwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Basswood4.1 miles13
Beechwood8.4 miles13
Hazel10.1 miles14
Gibbs City11.1 miles14
Homer Location15.2 miles14
Forbes Location15.6 miles14
Mineral Hills15.8 miles14
Virgil Location16.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617543. 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.