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Painesdale, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49955. It lies near Tolonen Hill. The Survey maps it on the South Range quadrangle. 336 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,289 feet above sea level.

Painesdale within Houghton County

On record in Painesdale

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Painesdale between 1994 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 May 1994Debris and open burning7.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDA
6 October 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houghton 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 Painesdale: 19 past producers, 6 prospects, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, 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
SuperiorCopper, SilverPast Producer1904, 1908
G and S Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moilanen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Baltic PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Houghton Co Road Commission PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Houghton Co Road Commission QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
AtlanticCopperPast Producer1865, 1866
Atlantic AmygdaloidCopperPast Producer1855, 1917
Atlantic MineCopperPast Producer1866, 1910
Atlantic Section 16 ExplorationCopperProspect1907

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Painesdale in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 heavy rain. 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 2012Heavy RainPainesdale-Observers measured 2 to 3 inches of rainfall across Houghton County.

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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
Champion Mine0.6 miles19
Trimountain1.0 miles19
South Range2.4 miles19
Baltic2.7 miles19
Mill Mine Junction3.1 miles19
Atlantic Mine4.4 miles19
Superior4.5 miles19
Salmon Trout5.9 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on PainesdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7124878The 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 634293. 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.