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Princeton, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Forsyth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49841. The Survey maps it on the Gwinn quadrangle.

Princeton within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

67 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Princeton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAIRFIELD ROAD
9 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Princeton: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1844, 1907, 1942
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1907, 1911
Austin MineIronPast Producer1844, 1905, 1929
Austin Mines Numbers 1 and 2IronPast Producer1903, 1905
Cleveland Cliffs Iron MineIronPast Producer
FrancisIronPast Producer1893
Francis MineIronPast Producer1844, 1893, 1939
Gardner-Mackinaw MineIronPast Producer1844, 1919, 1941
Mackinaw-Gardner Iron MineIronPast Producer
Princeton MineIronPast Producer1844, 1872, 1947

Every working recorded in Marquette 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
Austin1.0 miles18
Gwinn1.9 miles18
New Swanzy2.7 miles18
Plains4.5 miles18
Swanzy5.4 miles14
K I Sawyer5.9 miles18
Little Lake7.1 miles14
Sands9.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 635461. 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.