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New Swanzy, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Forsyth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49841. It stands on Halfway Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gwinn quadrangle.

New Swanzy within Marquette County

On record in New Swanzy

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of New Swanzy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAIRFIELD ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of New Swanzy: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1844, 1907, 1942
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1907, 1911
Austin MineIronPast Producer1844, 1905, 1929
Austin Mines Numbers 1 and 2IronPast Producer1903, 1905
Cleveland Cliffs Iron MineIronPast Producer
FrancisIronPast Producer1893
Francis MineIronPast Producer1844, 1893, 1939
Gardner-MackinawIronPast Producer1911, 1919
Gardner-Mackinaw MineIronPast Producer1844, 1919, 1941
Mackinaw-Gardner Iron MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Swanzy in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$10,000The Michigan DNR reported numerous large trees were uprooted or snapped.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$5,000A downed tree damaged the power mast of the roof on the northside of west Bass Lake. Report was relayed from the WJMNTV3 meteorologist.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$5,000A report via MPING of trees uprooted or snapped five miles southeast of Big Bass Lake. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$5,000The Marquette County Dispatch reported large trees down and downed wires suspended on other wires around the Princeton area west of Gwinn along Highway M-35 in Forsyth Township.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$1,500Facebook message and image showing several large trees downed roughly five miles north of Princeton.

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
Gwinn0.8 miles18
Austin1.7 miles18
Princeton2.7 miles18
Swanzy3.3 miles14
Plains3.5 miles18
Little Lake4.5 miles14
K I Sawyer4.5 miles18
Cedar Bank8.5 miles14

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 Q122548721The 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 633342. 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.