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.
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.
Frank C. Huse Houselisted 1983 · 0.4 miles away
William Russell Houselisted 1983 · 0.4 miles away
David M. Ross Houselisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
Ernest Diele Houselisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
Herman Rau Houselisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
Finnish and Swedish Mercantile Association Buildinglisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away
Crystal Innlisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away
Iron County Courthouselisted 1975 · 0.7 miles away
Timothy Murphy Houselisted 1983 · 0.7 miles away
Steven Royce Houselisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away- Frank W. Cole Houselisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
- John H. Parks Company-Wills Hardware Buildinglisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Crystal Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Crystal Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Crystal Falls 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
Fires near this place
40 since 1992Regional 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 use | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LIND ROAD |
| 9 June 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.1 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRON 0006 |
| 11 June 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 June 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 2005 | Smoking | 4.6 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 184 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paint Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Williams Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Alpha Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1882, 1903 | |
| Alpha Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1903 | |
| Armania Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1889, 1914 | |
| Armenia Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1889 | |
| Balkan-Judson Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1882, 1935 | |
| Balkan-Judson Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1913 | |
| Bird Exploration | Iron | Prospect | Secondary Enrichment | |
| Book Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1942, 1958 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Falls | 0.7 miles | 12 | |
| Odgers Location | 1.2 miles | 12 | |
| Western Location | 1.2 miles | 12 | |
| Tobin Location | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Shafer Location | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Monongahela Location | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Panola | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Dunn Location | 2.8 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 Q122594817 | 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 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.







