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Michigamme, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Michigamme Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49861. It lies near Sundstrum Island. The Survey maps it on the Michigamme quadrangle. 255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,627 feet above sea level.

Michigamme within Marquette County

Population over time

3 figures

Michigamme fell from 287 to 255 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000287
2010271-16 (-6%)
2020255-16 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Michigamme between 1992 and 2018, burning about 8 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
2 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMAS LAKE
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 1995Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2008Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGIBSON LAKE FIRE
10 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2010Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDIAN LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Michigamme: 21 past producers, 9 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite. 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
Upper Peninsula Graphite DepositGraphiteProspect1987
Dishneau PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mead PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mead PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Beaufort MineIronPast Producer1882, 1905
Beaufort MineIronPast Producer1882

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Michigamme in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2016Tornado (EF1)Michigamme$10,000The survey team observed several snapped or uprooted white pine trees over a foot in diameter just west-northwest of Republic.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMichigamme-Thunderstorm winds knocked large tree branches down in Michigamme. Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2013HailMichigamme-One inch diameter hail was reported near Michigamme.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMichigamme-Several trees down mainly south of Highway M-28.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindMichigamme-One foot diameter pine tree snapped in half.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMichigamme-Large trees were blown down on Brooks Street.
May 2007HailMichigamme-no account filed

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
Martins Landing6.6 miles15
Beacon6.8 miles15
Champion7.9 miles15
Wobic8.6 miles15
Clowry11.3 miles15
Republic11.4 miles12
Humboldt Mine11.8 miles12
Humboldt12.1 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.

Wikipedia article on MichigammeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q603682The 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 632193. 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.