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Junet, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Ironwood Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49938. It stands on Welch Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Ironwood quadrangle.

Junet within Gogebic County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Junet between 1994 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 2 HWY 51 EXCHANGE
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
16 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 2 H
4 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 2 G
4 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 2 F
4 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 2 Q
4 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 2 A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gogebic County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Junet: 11 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gogebic County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hurley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Ashland MineIronPast Producer1884, 1926
Ashland MineIronPast Producer1884
Germania MineIronPast Producer1848, 1885, 1912
Germania MineIronPast Producer1885
Globe Industries Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hurley Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gogebic County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Junet in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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 2023FloodJunet$20,000,000The Gogebic County Road Commission reported numerous secondary roads and a few county roads impassable from the 13th into the 17th. Highway M-28 east of Sunday Lake in Wakefield was closed from the 16th into the 21st due to high water. Estimated countywide damages to highway infrastructure were in the millions of dollars. Governor Whitmer declared a state of emergency in Gogebic County on April 14th due to severe and widespread flooding.
July 2016Flash FloodJunet$5,000,000Radar estimated rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches caused major flash flooding over portions of far western Gogebic County and left many sections of road washed out and impassible. Many people became stranded from near Ironwood to Little Girls Point. The Gogebic County Sheriff reported the Montreal River flooded on Lake Road at the Michigan-Wisconsin border with a washout of the guardrail at the Flint Creek ravine. A Gogebic County patrol car was swept up in the Montreal River flood waters and the deputy driving the car needed to be rescued.The Gogebic County Road Commission closed Lake Road from near Saxon Harbor, WI to Lower Powers Road.
June 2018FloodJunet$344,000The Gogebic County Sheriff reported vehicles stranded on streets in Ironwood with multiple closures of roads due to flood waters, including Highway US-2 between Lowell Street and Douglas Boulevard. Multiple basements were also flooded in the Ironwood area with estimated rainfall reports between four and five inches. Governor Rick Snyder declared a state of disaster in Gogebic County as damage estimates from the flooding were estimated at nearly $344,000.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindJunet$3,000Gogebic County Sheriff's office reported large trees in excess of 12 inches in diameter down across Lake Road near Upper Powers Road. The Gogebic County Road Commission was clearing the road with front end loaders.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindJunet$2,000The Gogebic County Sheriff reported several trees down along Lake Road near Little Girls Point.
May 2011Flash FloodJunet$1,000The Gogebic County Sheriff reported a road washed out just west of Little Girls Point due to storms that passed over the area in the afternoon. The road was closed from Little Girls Point west to the Wisconsin state line.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindJunet$500A tree was reported down on a power line on Lake Road at Little Girls Point.
August 2012HailJunet-The spotter near Little Girls Point reported three quarter inch diameter hail on the morning of the 1st.

Every storm recorded in Gogebic 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
North Ironwood2.3 miles9
Hautala Corner2.4 miles9
Hillcrest2.5 miles14
Ironwood4.0 miles14
Norrie4.7 miles14
Aurora5.0 miles14
Jessieville5.2 miles14
Auvinen Corner5.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1620395. 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.