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Pewabic, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49930. The Survey maps it on the Hancock quadrangle.

Pewabic within Houghton County

On record in Pewabic

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 3 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Pewabic between 1992 and 2019, burning about 438 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDOLLAR BAY VFD 0000012 - 2019
12 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 July 2002Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANCOCK FD 0000025 - 2018
6 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRICE LAKE
14 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesQUINCY-FRANKLIN-HANCOCK VFD 2019006 - 2019
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Pewabic: 38 past producers, 16 prospects, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver, 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
Sturgeon Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Gedvillas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Isle Royale AmygdaloidCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1968
Isle Royale MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1853, 1885
Pewabic AmygdaloidCopper, SilverPast Producer1857, 1931
Superior Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Isle RoyaleCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1853
QuincyCopper, SilverPast Producer1856
Quincy MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1856, 1925

Every working 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
Franklin Mine0.5 miles22
Lewer Pewabic0.8 miles22
Ripley1.0 miles22
Arcadian1.2 miles22
Paavola1.2 miles22
Houghton1.3 miles19
Hancock1.3 miles22
Hurontown2.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122562462The 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 634744. 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.