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Erickson Landing, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Crystal Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49920. The Survey maps it on the Amasa quadrangle.

Erickson Landing 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Erickson Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 78 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
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
25 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIND ROAD
22 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0005
9 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOLD 141 FIRE
8 May 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 140 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 140 workings within 5 miles of Erickson Landing: 61 occurrences, 40 past producers, 36 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Oss PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Paint Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bristol MineIronPast Producer
Bristol-YoungstownIronPast Producer1892
Bristol-Youngstown MineIronPast Producer1890, 1969
Carpenter MineIronPast Producer1913, 1928
Carpenter MineIronPast Producer1913, 1914
Columbia MineIronPast Producer1882, 1963
Columbia MineIronPast Producer1882

Every working 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
New Bristol Location2.7 miles13
Fortune Lake3.3 miles13
Monongahela Location4.2 miles12
Odgers Location4.2 miles12
Tobin Location4.2 miles12
Gibson Lake4.5 miles13
Shafer Location4.6 miles12
Balsam4.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617547. 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.