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Kimball Location, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Crystal Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 49920. It stands on Dunn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crystal Falls quadrangle.

Kimball Location within Iron County

On record in Kimball Location

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 within a mile 12 of 15 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Kimball Location between 1992 and 2019, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
25 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIND ROAD
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0006
11 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2005Smoking4.6 acresMichigan 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 184 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 184 workings within 5 miles of Kimball Location: 69 past producers, 62 occurrences, 51 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Paint Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1882, 1903
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1903
Armania MineIronPast Producer1889, 1914
Armenia MineIronPast Producer1889
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1882, 1935
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1913
Bird ExplorationIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1958

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
Crystal Falls0.7 miles12
Odgers Location1.2 miles12
Western Location1.2 miles12
Tobin Location1.4 miles12
Shafer Location1.5 miles12
Monongahela Location2.2 miles12
Panola2.7 miles12
Dunn Location2.8 miles12

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 Q122594817The 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 1617659. 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.