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Naults, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Mastodon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49920. It stands on McGoverns Creek. The Survey maps it on the Naults quadrangle.

Naults within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Naults between 1994 and 2020, burning about 203 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
7 July 2007Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSECOND CROSSING 1
24 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSECOND CROSSING 2
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
5 May 2018Debris and open burning1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHARDING ROAD
4 May 2019Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARA ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Naults: 13 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Stager Manganese PropertyManganeseProspect
Blue Lake Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Olson Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1882, 1903
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1903
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1882, 1935
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1913
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1958
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1943
Delphic MineIronPast Producer1883, 1896

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
Stager2.4 miles9
Mastodon3.0 miles12
Alpha3.7 miles13
Panola5.3 miles12
Dunn Location5.4 miles12
Pentoga5.4 miles13
Monongahela Location6.7 miles12
Shafer Location6.7 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 Q122594532The 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 1620989. 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.