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Glovers Corner, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Arvon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49962. The Survey maps it on the Glovers Corner quadrangle.

Glovers Corner within Baraga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Glovers Corner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 8 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
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARVON FIRE
11 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPLIT CEDAR
27 July 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2009Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSKANNEE RD.
29 June 2014Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARQUETTE 0010
6 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHE BONEYARD
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON RIVER RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baraga County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glovers Corner: 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Vanadium, Lead, Zinc, Uranium, Lead, Silver. 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
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Lead ProspectLeadOccurrence
Unnamed Lead Zinc Uranium ProspectLead, Zinc, UraniumOccurrence
Unnamed Silver ProspectSilverProspect
Unnamed Vanadium ProspectVanadiumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Baraga 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
McComb Corner2.0 miles11
Skanee5.8 miles11
Aura11.4 miles12
Pequaming15.8 miles12
Zeba17.4 miles12
Arnheim19.9 miles12
Keweenaw Bay19.9 miles12
Assinins20.4 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 Q122566226The 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 1617587. 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.