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Pequaming, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in L'Anse Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49946. The Survey maps it on the L'Anse quadrangle.

Pequaming within Baraga County

On record in Pequaming

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

7 surveys from 12 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

31 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Pequaming between 1998 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
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
9 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesL'ANSE FD 0201961 - 2019
7 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyZEBA ALLOTMENT
27 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyTWO BARRELS
16 August 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan AgencyTRAILER PARK
1 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan AgencyROADSIDE
26 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyWELCOME HOME
22 July 2005Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan AgencySEWERPONDS
3 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baraga County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pequaming: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Baraga County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pequaming in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindPequaming$53,000Law enforcement reported a roof blown off a house in Pequaming. Numerous softwood trees were also snapped about a third of the way off the ground along 2nd Sand Road. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPequaming$2,000The State Police Regional Dispatch reported trees down on power lines in Pequaming.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPequaming$1,000Social media photos revealed a tree snapped off a quarter of the way off the ground, falling onto power lines on Lehto Road. The delayed report was estimated from radar.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPequaming$1,000Several 6 to 8-inch diameter trees were downed.
July 2016HailPequaming-There was a report just south of Pequaming of nickel-sized hail with one or two hailstones about one inch in diameter.
June 2006HailPequaming-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baraga 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
Zeba3.5 miles12
Keweenaw Bay4.4 miles12
Aura4.4 miles12
Assinins5.0 miles12
Arnheim6.3 miles12
Bear Town6.5 miles12
Baraga6.9 miles12
L'Anse7.1 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.

Wikipedia article on PequamingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7166556The 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 634613. 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.