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Phillipsville, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Calumet Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49913. It stands on Slaughterhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ahmeek quadrangle.

Phillipsville within Houghton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Phillipsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALUMET VILLAGE FD 0081219 - 2019
5 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSLASHER
5 June 1993Smoking1.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 1994Equipment and vehicle use6.4 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCALUMET TWP FIRE/RESCUE 2020021 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 71 workings within 5 miles of Phillipsville: 58 past producers, 9 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, 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
Gratiot Copper MineSilver, CopperPast ProducerCopper
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspectSulfides
Michigan Nickel DepositsNickel, CopperProspect
MohawkCopper, ArsenicPast Producer1898, 1902
Mohawkite FissureCopper, ArsenicPast Producer1900, 1901
Centennial No.2Copper, SilverPast Producer1863, 1904
IroquoisCopper, SilverPast Producer1942, 1956
WolverineCopper, SilverPast Producer1882, 1898
Haltunen Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Keweenaw County Pit Number 21Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Kearsarge0.4 miles14
Wolverine0.8 miles14
Copper City1.4 miles14
Centennial1.7 miles14
Centennial Heights2.1 miles14
Calumet3.1 miles13
Lakeview3.2 miles14
Laurium3.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 634766. 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.