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Phoenix, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Houghton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49950. It stands on East Branch Eagle River. The Survey maps it on the Phoenix quadrangle.

Phoenix within Keweenaw County

On record in Phoenix

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 13 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Phoenix between 2002 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAGLE HARBOR TOWNSHIP FD 0000008 - 2019
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAHMEEK FD 0200024 - 2020
3 June 2002Natural7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2010Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIFF'S DRIVE
8 October 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSW GRATIOT LAKE
30 October 2008Recreation and ceremony32 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNONAME

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Keweenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Phoenix: 41 past producers, 12 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Silver, Copper, Arsenic. 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
CliffSilver, CopperPast Producer1844, 1847
Fissure MinesCopper, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer1845, 1890
Phoenix AshbedCopper, SilverPast Producer1855
Central Cu MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
Cliff Copper MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
Phoenix Cu MineCopper, SilverProducer
Phoenix Fissure MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1844, 1931
Arnold Copper MineCopperPast Producer1860, 1900
Arnold Cu MineCopperPast Producer
Babbitt FissureCopperProducer1880

Every working recorded in Keweenaw County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phoenix in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2006Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$40,00040 to 50 large trees were snapped off or uprooted along Gratiot Lake Road within a mile of the northwest shoreline of Gratiot Lake.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$1,000Tree blown down across Cliff Drive.
June 2007HailPhoenix-Penny-sized hail also reported five miles west of Phoenix at the same time.

Every storm recorded in Keweenaw 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
Vaughnsville1.1 miles13
Eagle Nest1.3 miles13
Eagle River2.0 miles13
Central4.3 miles14
Ojibway4.3 miles15
Copper Falls5.1 miles14
Seneca6.8 miles15
Nepco Camp Number 77.1 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.

Wikipedia article on PhoenixAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7186739The 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 634768. 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.