Jacobsville, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Torch Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49945. The Survey maps it on the Portage Entry quadrangle.

Jacobsville within Houghton County

On record in Jacobsville

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 1 record

Jacobsville Finnish Lutheran Churchlisted 1976

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.

1954 USGS Keweenaw Bay quadrangle1:62500, 3 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
1984 USGS Portage Entry quadrangle1:24000
1991 USGS L'Anse quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacobsville in 12 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacobsville	$30,000	There was a delayed report via social media of multiple large trees down or snapped on either side of the Portage Canal near Jacobsville. Some trees were down on vehicles and structures.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacobsville	$3,000	Trees down across Kuusisto Road and Hidden Acres Road. The Houghton County Emergency Manager also reported trees down and power outages across the county.
October 2017	Flood	Jacobsville	$1,000	A spotter reported a 75-100 foot stretch of water flowing over Bootjack Road at Silver Creek. The flooding resulted from two to three inches of rainfall over a 24-hour period.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacobsville	$1,000	Five nine-inch diameter trees blown down.
July 2016	Hail	Jacobsville	-	The observer near Jacobsville observed nickel-sized hail.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Jacobsville	-	The Jacobsville observer measured one inch of rainfall in 12 hours.
October 2014	Hail	Jacobsville	-	Dime-sized hail was reported by the observer near Jacobsville.
March 2012	Hail	Jacobsville	-	The observer near Chassell reported mainly pea-sized hailstones to a depth of one-half inch. Some of the stones were dime-sized.
July 2011	Hail	Jacobsville	-	Pea to penny-sized hail was observed.
July 2011	Hail	Jacobsville	-	Most of the hail observed was between dime and quarter-sized, but a few stones were the size of golf balls. In addition...wind gusts were estimated around 40 mph.
May 2011	Heavy Rain	Jacobsville	-	Observer east of Chassell measured 1.25 inches of rain. Most of the rain fell within a 15-minute period with rainfall rates of nearly 4 inches per hour recorded.
May 2012	Hail	Jacobsville	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
White City	0.8 miles	12
Portage Entry	1.6 miles	12
Klingville	3.7 miles	12
Rabbit Bay	6.4 miles	11
Chassell	6.9 miles	19
Dreamland	8.1 miles	12
Point Mills	8.5 miles	12
Senter	8.7 miles	12

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 Q42383243

The 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 629192. 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.

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.