BlockFiresteel, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Ontonagon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49953. The Survey maps it on the Firesteel quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Greenland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Greenland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Ontonagon quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Firesteel quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
7 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Firesteel in 1992, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Firesteel in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Firesteel | $1,600,000 | Several roads were washed out in the Misery Bay area, including Misery Bay Road, Lots Road, Kemppa Road, and Wolf Creek Road. Some residents were stranded for hours due to the washouts. Newer culverts were blown out due to the flooding. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Firesteel | $50,000 | Nearly five inches of rain from the evening of the 18th into the early morning of the 19th caused flash flooding in the Ontonagon area as a culvert washed out and resulted in the closure of Lakeshore Drive east of Ontonagon. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Firesteel | $2,000 | There was a public report of an estimated three inches of heavy rain by Misery Bay in Ontonagon which caused minor flooding around the garage and yard of the property there. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Firesteel | - | A delayed report of quarter-sized hail near Misery Bay. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Firesteel | - | Pictures of nickel to quarter-sized hail from Twitter seven miles east of Fourteen Mile Point. Time of the report was estimated from radar. |
| May 2012 | Heavy Rain | Firesteel | - | The observer ten miles east of Ontonagon measured 1.75 inches of total rainfall. A small creek on the residence was reported over its banks. The observer at Rockland measured 2.80 inches of storm total rainfall. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Firesteel | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ontonagon | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Grand Rapids | 7.6 miles | 9 | |
| Greenland | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Rockland | 9.1 miles | 14 | |
| Mass City | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| Old Victoria Historic Townsite | 11.0 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Mine | 11.1 miles | 13 | |
| Victoria | 11.6 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619914. 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.
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.