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Humboldt, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Humboldt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49814. It stands on Halfway Creek. The Survey maps it on the Republic quadrangle.

Humboldt 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

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Humboldt between 1995 and 2019, burning about 91 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 August 2015Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST. ANTHONY
14 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISHPEMING TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000058 - 2019
1 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use80 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCO RD 601

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Humboldt: 33 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Molybdenum, Feldspar, Copper, Molybdenum. 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
Republic Feldspar QuarryFeldsparPast Producer
Unnamed Copper&Molybdenum ProspectCopper, MolybdenumOccurrence
Unnamed Gold ProspectGoldOccurrence
Unnamed Mineral ProspectMolybdenum, Gold, Copper, Bismuth, TungstenOccurrence
Unnamed Uranium ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed Molybdenum ProspectMolybdenumOccurrence
Unnamed Molybdenum ProspectMolybdenumOccurrence
American MineIronPast Producer1844, 1880, 1922
American MineIronPast Producer1880
Bessie MineIronProducer1844, 1891, 1906

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humboldt in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 3 flood. 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 2022FloodHumboldt-Snowmelt combined with periods of heavy rain resulted in minor flooding along the Escanaba River near Humboldt in late April.
April 2019FloodHumboldt-Abundant wet snow pack combined with moderate to heavy rain at times caused minor flooding along the Michigamme River near Republic and Witch Lake and along the Middle Branch of the Escanaba near Humboldt from 23rd through the end of the month. Some minor flooding was also reported along the Chocolay River near Harvey from the 18th through the 19th.
May 2019FloodHumboldt-Minor flooding occurred at the Middle Branch of Escanaba River at Humboldt and caused water to flow over County Road FX for a few hours during the afternoon of the 20th.

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
Humboldt Mine1.0 miles12
Clarksburg1.9 miles13
Clowry2.0 miles15
Diorite3.1 miles15
Wobic3.5 miles15
Snowville3.6 miles13
Champion4.2 miles15
Beacon5.3 miles15

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 Q118121585The 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 628802. 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.