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North Ironwood, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Ironwood Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49938. The Survey maps it on the North Ironwood quadrangle.

North Ironwood within Gogebic County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of North Ironwood between 1994 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 September 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBESSEMER FD 0200913 - 2020
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 2 HWY 51 EXCHANGE
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
16 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 May 2012Naturalunder an acreOttawa National ForestMARGARET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gogebic County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of North Ironwood: 24 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gogebic County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hurley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Globe Industries Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hurley Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Uno Talo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wedenoja PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Ashland MineIronPast Producer1884, 1926

Every working recorded in Gogebic County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Ironwood in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 2 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Ironwood$3,000Law enforcement dispatch reported three trees snapped in North Ironwood. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Ironwood$500Law enforcement reported a tree down near the intersection of Airport Road and Lake Road in Ironwood.

Every storm recorded in Gogebic 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
Hautala Corner0.7 miles9
Hillcrest1.3 miles14
Junet2.3 miles9
Auvinen Corner3.2 miles9
Siemens3.7 miles11
Ironwood4.0 miles14
Jessieville4.1 miles14
Aurora4.3 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 Q122558600The 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 1621044. 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.