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Rogers Location, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bates Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49935. The Survey maps it on the Gaastra quadrangle.

Rogers Location within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Rogers Location between 1995 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
18 August 2019Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOG CABIN
6 May 1995Debris and open burning4.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0002220 - 2020
26 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0020-19 - 2019
21 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0019-19 - 2019
15 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0021-18 - 2018
12 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCRYSTAL FALLS FIRE AUTHORITY 0001814 - 2018
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0016-18 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 590 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 590 workings within 5 miles of Rogers Location: 468 prospects, 99 past producers, 17 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Cannon MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Sherwood MineAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1851, 1943
Highway Us 2 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Iron County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Proksch No 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Arlington MineIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Aronson Hole 97IronProspect
Aronson Iron MineIronPast Producer
Baker & Oliver Prospect B, F, 01IronProspect
Baker Exploration AIronProspect

Every working recorded in Iron 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
Mapleton1.2 miles12
Bates Junction1.6 miles12
Bates Location1.7 miles12
Virgil Location2.7 miles14
Stambaugh2.8 miles14
Iron River3.2 miles14
Mineral Hills3.4 miles14
Gaastra3.5 miles12

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 Q122541051The 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 636121. 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.