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Forbes Location, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Iron River City. It lies in ZIP code area 49935. It stands on Iron Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Iron River quadrangle.

Forbes Location within Iron County

On record in Forbes Location

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Forbes Location between 1995 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
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
18 August 2019Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOG CABIN
20 June 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0023-19 - 2019
6 May 1995Debris and open burning4.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0002220 - 2020
5 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOttawa National ForestLANDING
26 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0020-19 - 2019
21 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0019-19 - 2019
15 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0021-18 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 517 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 517 workings within 5 miles of Forbes Location: 400 prospects, 94 past producers, 15 occurrences, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Cannon MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Caspian Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Us 2 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Iron County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Iron River Lumber & Fuel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Proksch No 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Arlington MineIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Aronson Hole 97IronProspect
Aronson Iron MineIronPast Producer
Baker & Oliver Prospect B, F, 01IronProspect

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
Mineral Hills0.5 miles14
Homer Location0.6 miles14
Virgil Location1.1 miles14
Bates Location1.8 miles12
Iron River1.9 miles14
Stambaugh2.9 miles14
Hiawatha Location3.2 miles14
Bates Junction3.4 miles12

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 Q122597515The 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 1619948. 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.