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Homeier, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Powell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49855. It stands on Yellow Dog River. The Survey maps it on the Big Bay quadrangle.

Homeier within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Homeier between 2002 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesYELLOW DOG
3 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPOWELL TOWNSHIP FD 2020017 - 2020
17 September 2011Natural20 acresMichigan AgencyINDEPENDANCE
9 August 2005Natural2.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2002Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMichigan 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Homeier: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Barnum Iron MineIronPast Producer
Mather B MineIronPast Producer1844, 1880
Regent Group- Includes: Prince OfIronPast Producer1886

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homeier in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 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 2020Thunderstorm WindHomeier$1,000Social media photos revealed several trees blown down near the intersection of County Roads KD and KCB just southeast of Big Bay. The time of the delayed report was estimated from radar.
July 2014Heavy RainHomeier-The automated station six miles southeast of Big Bay measured 1.85 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. Observers in Negaunee Township, Marquette and Harvey measured between 1.5 and 1.7 inches over a 24-hour period.

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
Alder1.5 miles12
Antlers1.8 miles12
Big Bay3.9 miles12
Burns Landing4.6 miles12
Birch7.4 miles12
Gillet Landing8.6 miles13
Dodge City10.3 miles13
Buckroe10.8 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 Q122557905The 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 1617625. 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.