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Greenland, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Greenland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49929. It lies near Adventure Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Greenland quadrangle.

Greenland within Ontonagon 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

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Greenland between 1992 and 2015, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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 maintenance1
Natural1

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
8 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2015Natural6.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ontonagon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Greenland: 31 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Copper, 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
MichiganCopper, SilverPast Producer1898, 1904
MinesotaCopper, SilverPast Producer1848, 1856
Old MassCopper, SilverPast Producer1856, 1857
RocklandCopper, SilverPast Producer1853, 1854
Adventure Consolidated MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1850, 1851, 1917
Caledonia Mine (Nebraska)Copper, SilverProducer1855, 1863
Flintsteel River MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1853, 1881
Mass Consolidated MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1849, 1850
Michigan MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1898, 1921
Minesota MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1848, 1885

Every working recorded in Ontonagon County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenland in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 2 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGreenland$5,000There was a report via social media of a barn destroyed near Mass City.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGreenland-Numerous trees down.

Every storm recorded in Ontonagon 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
Mass City1.4 miles13
Lake Mine3.0 miles13
McKeever3.5 miles13
Rockland5.0 miles14
Wainola5.0 miles13
Wasas6.3 miles13
Old Victoria Historic Townsite8.3 miles14
Rousseau8.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627354. 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.