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Greenwood, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Ely Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49849. It stands on Larson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood quadrangle.

Greenwood within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood between 1994 and 2020, burning about 32 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDIORITE
1 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISHPEMING TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000058 - 2019
27 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 103 workings within 5 miles of Greenwood: 61 past producers, 19 occurrences, 18 prospects, 4 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Molybdenum, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Gold&Copper&Tungsten&Zinc ProspectCopper, Gold, Tungsten, ZincOccurrence
Mi.Verde Antique Co.Dolomite QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
RopesGold, SilverPlant1880, 1882
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper and Tungsten ProspecCopper, TungstenOccurrence
Unnamed Copper and Zinc ProspectCopper, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed Copper&Molybdenum ProspectCopper, MolybdenumOccurrence
Unnamed Gold and Copper ProspectCopper, GoldOccurrence
Ropes MineGold, SilverProducer1880, 1882, 1989
Superior Gold & Silver ExplorationGold, SilverProspect1889

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

9 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwood in 9 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$100,000The regional central dispatch center reported large power poles down near the intersection of Highway US-41 and County Road 496 in West Ishpeming.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$20,000Forty-three trees were uprooted or snapped at Wawonowin Golf Course. Some trees were up to two feet in diameter and all fell in the same direction.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$18,000Two trees roughly a foot in diameter fell near the intersection of CR 478 and Highway M-28 west of Ishpeming. One tree clipped the corner of a mobile home and another fell on a camper trailer and truck.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$5,000Numerous trees were reported down around Ishpeming...especially west and south of town. The report was relayed through TV-6 news and social media, and the time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$2,000Law enforcement dispatch reported downed power lines across a driveway on County Road CD southwest of Ishpeming.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$500A large diameter maple tree was observed snapped off around five feet above the trunk in Tilden Township along Marquette County Road 581. A section of the tree landed in the driveway of a NWS Employee. The time of the delayed report was estimated from radar. Winds were estimated around 50 mph.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$500A one-foot diameter pine tree was down across Wawonowin Club Road. The report was relayed via the local TV-6 station and was estimated from radar.
July 2022HailGreenwood-A Facebook user measured hail between nickel and quarter sized five miles southwest of National Mine.
June 2020HailGreenwood-There was a public report of nickel-sized hail seven miles southwest of Ishpeming.

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
North Lake1.6 miles15
South Greenwood1.9 miles13
West Ishpeming2.9 miles15
Snowville3.5 miles13
Winthrop Junction3.7 miles15
Frenchtown4.2 miles15
Diorite4.2 miles15
Salisbury4.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627374. 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.