Iron River, Michigan

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• Iron County

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 12 of 27 shown

• Bethany Lutheran Churchlisted 1983
• Isaac W. Byers Houselisted 1983
• Central Schoollisted 2008
• Rudolf Ericson Houselisted 1983
• Nelson E. Fisher House-High Bankslisted 1983
• Henry H. Frailing Houselisted 1983
• Dennis J. Haggerty Houselisted 1983
• Iron County Fair Exhibition Halllisted 1983
• Iron River Town Halllisted 1983
• Joseph Joseph Houselisted 1983
• Alexander MacKinnon Houselisted 1983
• William Moss Houselisted 1983

Every listing in Iron County

Iron River fell from 3,029 to 3,007 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1898 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1946 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
• 1989 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:100000
• 1999 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Iron River between 1993 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bates Junction
• Hiawatha Location
• Stambaugh
• Virgil Location
• Bates Location
• Caspian

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 559 workings within 5 miles of Iron River: 440 prospects, 96 past producers, 15 occurrences, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Iron County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iron River in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 20 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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.

Every storm recorded in Iron County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1620325. 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.