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Kelso Junction, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Crystal Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49920. It stands on Kelso River. The Survey maps it on the Kelso Junction quadrangle.

Kelso Junction within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Kelso Junction between 1994 and 2018, burning about 126 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 July 2002Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2006Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0006
25 May 2014Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0003
23 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesM-69 FIRE
19 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 141 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 141 workings within 5 miles of Kelso Junction: 60 occurrences, 46 prospects, 33 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diamond. 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
Lake Ellen KimberliteDiamondPast Producer1971
Paint Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Upper Peninsula AreaDiamondProspectKimberlite
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Armania MineIronPast Producer1889, 1914
Armenia MineIronPast Producer1889
Bird ExplorationIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Caladonia ProspectIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Cayia MineIronPast Producer1951, 1954
Cayia MineIronPast Producer1952

Every working recorded in Iron 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
Mansfield Location2.7 miles16
Kiernan3.9 miles17
Western Location4.5 miles12
Crystal Falls5.4 miles12
Kimball Location5.7 miles12
Odgers Location6.1 miles12
Tobin Location6.6 miles12
Mansfield6.9 miles16

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 Q122564695The 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 1617655. 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.