BlockRedridge, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stanton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49905. It stands on Salmon Trout River. The Survey maps it on the Beacon Hill quadrangle.
On record in Redridge
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 1 record
Redridge Steel and Log Damslisted 1992
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Beacon Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Beacon Hill quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hancock quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Redridge in 1994, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 7.3 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redridge in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Redridge | $1,000,000 | Three to four inches of rain in approximately six hours caused another episode of flooding in Houghton and surrounding areas within the span of month. The Houghton County Sheriff reported several roads washed out in the Houghton/Hancock area. This second flood episode during the recovery period of the more severe Father's Day flood event prompted Governor Rick Snyder to declare a second state of disaster for Houghton County. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Redridge | - | Nickle sized hail was reported. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Redridge | - | 70 mpg gusts. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Hill | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Salmon Trout | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Freda | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Liminga | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Oskar | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Schmidt Corner | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Mill Mine Junction | 7.4 miles | 19 | |
| Atlantic Mine | 8.0 miles | 19 |
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 Q122546523 | The 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 635741. 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.
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.