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Lac La Belle, Michigan

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49950. It stands on Haven Creek. The Survey maps it on the Delaware quadrangle.

Lac La Belle within Keweenaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lac La Belle between 2002 and 2006, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 August 2006Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Lac La Belle: 12 past producers, 8 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver. 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
Evergreen SeriesCopper, SilverPast Producer1848
543-S DepositCopperProducer1996
813 - Mt. Bohemia WestCopperProspectChalcocite
Agate Harbor MineCopperPast Producer1846, 1854
Bluff Wyoming MineCopperPast Producer1865
Delaware Copper MineCopperPast Producer
Delaware MineCopperPast Producer1847, 1886
Empire Copper MineCopperPast Producer
G-12CopperProspectChalcocite
G-13CopperProspectChalcocite

Every working recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lac La Belle in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLac La Belle$5,000The Keweenaw County Road Commission reported multiple trees down across Keweenaw County. The trees ranged from 4 to 12 inches in diameter.

Every storm recorded in Keweenaw 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
Mandan2.8 miles23
Bete Grise3.4 miles12
Wyoming4.1 miles23
Delaware4.8 miles23
Betsy6.4 miles14
Nepco Camp Number 76.8 miles14
Copper Harbor9.0 miles12
Eagle Harbor9.2 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on Lac La BelleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60738853The 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 629926. 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.