BlockMass City, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Greenland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49948. It lies near Adventure Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Greenland quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1950 USGS Greenland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Greenland quadrangle1:62500, 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
- 1979 USGS Ontonagon quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Greenland quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Mass City between 1992 and 2016, 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2015 | Natural | 6.6 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MASS |
| 19 May 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 33 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Mass City: 32 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1898, 1904 | |
| Minesota | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1848, 1856 | |
| Old Mass | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1856, 1857 | |
| Rockland | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1853, 1854 | |
| Adventure Consolidated Mine | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1850, 1851, 1917 | |
| Caledonia Mine (Nebraska) | Copper, Silver | Producer | 1855, 1863 | |
| Flintsteel River Mine | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1853, 1881 | |
| Mass Consolidated Mine | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1849, 1850 | |
| Michigan Mine | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1898, 1921 | |
| Minesota Mine | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1848, 1885 |
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.
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 Mass City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14716213 | 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 631722. 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.