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Mandan, 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. The Survey maps it on the Delaware quadrangle.

Mandan 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Mandan between 2001 and 2006, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan 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 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Mandan: 17 past producers, 10 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Aetna Copper MineCopperPast Producer
Aetna Exploration Copper MineCopperPast Producer1864, 1867
Agate Harbor MineCopperPast Producer1846, 1854
Amygdaloid Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Bluff Wyoming MineCopperPast Producer1865
Cape MineCopperPast Producer1854
Connecticut FissureCopperPast ProducerCopper

Every working recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mandan in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMandan$3,000The Keweenaw County emergency manager reported numerous trees down on the road to Lac La Belle causing the road to become impassable. The time of the report was estimated from the radar.

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
Lac La Belle2.8 miles23
Wyoming3.6 miles23
Bete Grise4.1 miles12
Delaware4.3 miles23
Nepco Camp Number 77.0 miles14
Copper Harbor7.4 miles12
Eagle Harbor8.1 miles14
Betsy9.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 631377. 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.