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Gibson 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. The Survey maps it on the Amasa quadrangle.

Gibson Lake 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Gibson Lake between 1993 and 2019, burning about 52 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
22 July 2006Debris and open burningunder 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
6 May 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDURKE ROAD
25 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRANDAHL ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Gibson Lake: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Iron County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gibson MineIronPast Producer1849, 1885, 1911
Gibson MineIronPast Producer1885
Hemlock MineIronPast Producer1849, 1889, 1938
Hemlock MineIronPast Producer1891
Michigan MineIronPast Producer1849, 1893, 1916
Michigan MineIronPast Producer1893
Porter MineIronPast Producer1849, 1914, 1927
Porter MineIronPast Producer1914, 1916
Warner MineIronPast Producer1851, 1915, 1937

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gibson Lake in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindGibson Lake$20,000The Iron County Sheriff reported numerous trees down across the Bates-Amasa Road resulting in its closure. Numerous trees were downed in the Amasa area as well. The time of the report was estimated from radar.

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
Amasa2.3 miles13
Balsam2.6 miles13
Erickson Landing4.5 miles13
New Bristol Location7.2 miles13
Fortune Lake7.5 miles13
Odgers Location8.5 miles12
Chicagon8.5 miles12
Tobin Location8.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617581. 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.