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National Mine, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Tilden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49849. The Survey maps it on the Ishpeming quadrangle. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

National Mine within Marquette County

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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of National Mine between 1994 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
4 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARD ROCK FIRE
30 July 2004Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUTCH SETTLEMENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 133 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 133 workings within 5 miles of National Mine: 96 past producers, 16 prospects, 10 producers, 6 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Copper, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Superior Gold & Silver ExplorationGold, SilverProspect1889
Unnamed Copper&Lead&Zinc ProspectCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Berringer & Thurber Gold ExplorationGoldProspect1884
Krieg MineGoldPast Producer1899, 1901
Madden & Hogan ExplorationGoldProspect1883
Unnamed Gold ProspectGoldOccurrence
Albion MineIronProspect1844, 1872, 1879
Albion MineIronPast Producer1872

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names National Mine in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNational Mine$2,000Law enforcement reported several trees down blocking Beagle Club Road southwest of National Mine.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindNational Mine$2,000Several trees were knocked down along County Road 581.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNational Mine$500A tree was reported down on County Road 476 southwest of Palmer. Size of the tree was unknown, and time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2022HailNational Mine-A NWS employee measured hail between dime and nickel-sized five miles southwest of National Mine.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindNational Mine-Very strong winds knocked down small tree limbs and blew patio furniture across the yard.
May 2007HailNational Mine-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
Frenchtown1.0 miles15
Salisbury1.2 miles15
Winthrop Junction1.2 miles15
Lake Angeline1.4 miles15
West Ishpeming2.0 miles15
Ishpeming2.2 miles15
North Lake3.4 miles15
Greenwood4.4 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 Q136353070The 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 633227. 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.