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Munising Junction, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Au Train Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49862. It stands on Valley Spur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Munising quadrangle.

Munising Junction within Alger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Munising Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
28 August 2003Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2006Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresHiawatha National ForestOTTER LAKE
23 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHiawatha National Forestnot named
20 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestCOALWOOD
9 May 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUTRAIN TOWNSHIP VFD 0001220 - 2020
26 May 1998Smoking1.0 acresHiawatha National ForestGOBBLER
2 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Munising Junction: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Shaw and Lobb Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Alger 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
Coalwood2.9 miles11
Stillman3.3 miles11
Munising4.0 miles11
Christmas4.0 miles11
Vail4.4 miles11
Wetmore4.8 miles12
Williams Landing5.4 miles11
Juniper6.5 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 Q122558135The 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 1620954. 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.