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Hansen, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Menominee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49858. The Survey maps it on the Birch Creek quadrangle.

Hansen within Menominee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Hansen between 1993 and 2019, burning about 197 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 June 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hansen: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Menominee County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Menominee River Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Menominee River Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Slawinski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sobieski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wayside Park Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hansen in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHansen$1,000A spotter near Carbondale reported a couple of trees down from thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Heavy RainHansen-The spotter near Birch Creek measured 1.75 inches of rainfall over mainly a two-hour period.

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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
Birch Creek2.5 miles9
Carbondale2.7 miles8
Eagles Nest3.4 miles9
Ingallston4.9 miles9
Kew5.6 miles9
Wallace6.0 miles8
Johnson Landing8.2 miles9
Menominee9.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617607. 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.