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Fortune Lake, 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. It lies near Scaddens Island. The Survey maps it on the Fortune Lakes quadrangle.

Fortune Lake within Iron County

On record in Fortune Lake

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 1 record

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

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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Fortune Lake between 1992 and 2019, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
7 July 2007Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan 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 167 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 167 workings within 5 miles of Fortune Lake: 63 occurrences, 54 past producers, 46 prospects, 4 producers. 4 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
Blue Lake Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oss PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Paint Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1882, 1903
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1903
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1882, 1935
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1913
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1958
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1943

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fortune Lake in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2012HailFortune Lake-Hail occurred in Bewabic State Park.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindFortune Lake-Strong thunderstorm winds downed a 20 inch diameter tree and blew tarpaper off a roof.

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
New Bristol Location1.7 miles13
Monongahela Location2.4 miles12
Dunn Location2.9 miles12
Tobin Location3.2 miles12
Shafer Location3.2 miles12
Erickson Landing3.3 miles13
Odgers Location3.6 miles12
Alpha4.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 626299. 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.