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Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sault Ste. Marie City. It lies in ZIP code area 49783. It stands on Ashmun Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sault Ste. Marie South quadrangle. 13,337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Sault Sainte Marie within Chippewa County

On record in Sault Sainte Marie

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 12 of 15 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Chippewa County

Population over time

2 figures

Sault Sainte Marie fell from 14,144 to 13,337 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201014,144
202013,337-807 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Sault Sainte Marie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 151 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
9 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOO TOWNSHIP FD 0031-19 - 2019
22 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP VFD 2016006 - 2019
7 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALGONQUIN
5 May 2012Smokingunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAST 5 MILE
27 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOO TOWNSHIP FD 0011-20 - 2020
21 May 1994Debris and open burning12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Sault Sainte Marie: 8 producers, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Beadle's Brick Yard Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Montero Sand PitSilicaProducer
C G Sanderson No. 1 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
City Limits PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fornicola PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gordon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
I L Whitehead Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Montero Excavating Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Osborn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chippewa 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
Lake Superior Estates1.8 miles16
Gardenville3.2 miles16
Shallows5.4 miles16
Baie de Wasai5.8 miles14
Brassar6.8 miles11
Rosedale8.3 miles16
Dafter10.3 miles15
Payment11.1 miles11

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 Sault Sainte MarieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986634The 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 637276. 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.