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Monongahela Location, Michigan

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

Monongahela Location within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Monongahela Location between 1992 and 2019, burning about 86 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

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
25 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIND ROAD
7 July 2007Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRON 0006
11 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan 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 178 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 178 workings within 5 miles of Monongahela Location: 65 past producers, 62 occurrences, 47 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Blue Lake Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oss PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Paint Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Williams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1882, 1903
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1903
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1882, 1935
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1913
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1958
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1943

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
Shafer Location0.8 miles12
Tobin Location0.9 miles12
Dunn Location1.3 miles12
Odgers Location1.4 miles12
New Bristol Location1.4 miles13
Crystal Falls2.1 miles12
Kimball Location2.2 miles12
Fortune Lake2.4 miles13

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 Q122572156The 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 1617727. 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.