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Lawson, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Skandia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49885. The Survey maps it on the Carlshend quadrangle.

Lawson within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lawson between 2005 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHAY FIRE
2 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSKANDIA-WEST BRANCH FD 0000015 - 2019
15 June 2005Naturalunder an acreHiawatha National ForestDUKES
14 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCK RIVER TOWNSHIP FD 0000014 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lawson: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Lawson Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawson in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
August 2019HailLawson-Photos and video received via social media showed evidence of quarter size to half-dollar sized hail falling of Highway US-41 between Dukes Road and County Road 456.

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Vick1.2 miles11
Dukes1.7 miles11
Maple Grove2.1 miles11
Selma3.3 miles11
Carlshend4.7 miles11
Skandia Station5.1 miles11
New Dalton5.4 miles11
Skandia6.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1620498. 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.