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Nonesuch, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Carp Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49953. It stands on West Branch Iron River. The Survey maps it on the White Pine quadrangle.

Nonesuch within Ontonagon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Nonesuch between 2001 and 2007, burning under an acre 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
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
16 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 June 2001Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ontonagon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Nonesuch: 14 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Silver. 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
(Facility) White Pine Copper RefineryCopper, Gold, SilverPlant
Boston & North American Silver ProspectSilverProspect1845, 1846
Cleveland Silver ProspectSilverPast Producer1874, 1875
Mammoth Silver ProspectSilverOccurrence1873
Ontonagon Silver MineSilverPast Producer1873
Scranton Silver MineSilverPast Producer1872
Superior Silver MineSilverPast Producer1873, 1876
White Pine MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1937, 1945, 1995
Cleveland MineCopperPast ProducerSecondary Enrichment
Collins MineCopperPast ProducerSecondary Enrichment

Every working recorded in Ontonagon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nonesuch in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2022Flash FloodNonesuch$10,000Rainfall estimates of 2 to 3 inches from thunderstorms during the day on the 13th caused flash flooding on the south end of Porcupine Mountains State Park. The South Boundary Road was closed from Summit Peak to the Gogebic County line due to water over the road. The park headquarters posted videos of water running over the road on their Facebook page.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNonesuch$5,000Widespread power outages were reported across Ontonagon County by UPPCO, especially from White Pine northeast to Ontonagon.

Every storm recorded in Ontonagon 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
White Pine1.9 miles15
Silver City5.8 miles15
Carp Lake Landing7.3 miles13
Buckshot Landing10.2 miles14
Green11.1 miles10
Bergland11.5 miles12
LaFayette Landing12.1 miles14
Lake Gogebic12.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617744. 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.