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Gregoryville, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Schoolcraft Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49945. It stands on Sawmill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Laurium quadrangle.

Gregoryville within Houghton County

On record in Gregoryville

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 4 records

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

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Gregoryville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
10 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE LINDEN FD 2019019 - 2019
10 September 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUD LAKE ROAD SWAMP
7 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUBBELL VFD 0724191 - 2019
2 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 1993Smoking1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 1995Misuse 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 Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Gregoryville: 16 past producers, 10 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Nickel, Copper, Nickel. 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
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspectSulfides
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspect
Kearsarge MineCopper, SilverPast ProducerLode
La Salle MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1910, 1920
Mayflower Old Colony MineCopper, SilverPast ProducerLode
Calumet No 2CopperPast Producer1864, 1865
Calumet No.1CopperPast Producer1864, 1865
Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate LodeCopperPast Producer1864, 1865, 1968
La Salle Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Laurium MineCopperPast ProducerLode

Every working recorded in Houghton 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
Lake Linden1.0 miles13
Hubbell2.1 miles13
Quincy Mill4.4 miles13
Laurium4.4 miles13
Osceola4.5 miles13
Mason5.0 miles13
Swedetown5.2 miles13
Calumet5.3 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on GregoryvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5607254The 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 1618746. 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.