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Mansfield Location, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mansfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49920. The Survey maps it on the Lake Mary quadrangle.

Mansfield Location within Iron County

On record in Mansfield 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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Mansfield Location between 1994 and 2019, burning about 118 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2006Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0006
23 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesM-69 FIRE
19 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 2014Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0002
1 May 2016Fireworks6.8 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 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Mansfield Location: 58 prospects, 26 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Diamond, Stone, Dimension. 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
Basalt QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Lake Ellen KimberliteDiamondPast Producer1971
Upper Peninsula AreaDiamondProspectKimberlite
Armania MineIronPast Producer1889, 1914
Armenia MineIronPast Producer1889
Bird ExplorationIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
BruleIronPast Producer1936
Caladonia ProspectIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Cayia MineIronPast Producer1951, 1954
Cayia MineIronPast Producer1952

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
Kelso Junction2.7 miles13
Kiernan2.8 miles17
Mansfield4.3 miles16
Western Location5.2 miles12
Kimball Location6.2 miles12
Crystal Falls6.2 miles12
Odgers Location7.0 miles12
Tobin Location7.5 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 Q122573557The 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 1617697. 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.