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Quincy Mill, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Osceola Township. It stands on Quincy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Laurium quadrangle.

Quincy Mill within Houghton County

On record in Quincy Mill

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

8 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Quincy Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 441 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
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
10 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE LINDEN FD 2019019 - 2019
10 September 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMUD LAKE ROAD SWAMP
26 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHUBBELL VFD 0724191 - 2019
22 July 2002Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder 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 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Quincy Mill: 19 past producers, 9 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
La Salle MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1910, 1920
Houghton Crushed Stone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mich Tech University ExperStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Arcadian MineCopperPast Producer1863, 1898, 1902
Arcadian Copper MineCopperPast Producer
Arcadian Copper Mine SouthCopperPast Producer
Concord & Douglas Copper MineCopperPast Producer
Franklin Junior Copper MinesCopperPast Producer
Franklin Junior MineCopperPast Producer1862, 1911
La Salle Cu MineCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quincy Mill in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
May 2012HailQuincy Mill-no account filed

Every storm 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
Mason0.6 miles13
Hubbell2.3 miles13
Senter3.2 miles12
Dollar Bay3.4 miles19
Point Mills3.7 miles12
Lake Linden4.2 miles13
Dreamland4.2 miles12
Boston4.3 miles22

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 Q122568697The 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 1617806. 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.