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Shallows, 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. The Survey maps it on the Shallows quadrangle.

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Shallows within Chippewa County

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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Shallows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 165 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
28 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUPERIOR TOWNSHIP VFD 2018-30 - 2018
22 June 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1994Debris 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

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 Shallows: 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

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shallows in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindShallows$6,000Trees were downed onto power lines.

Every storm 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 Estates5.0 miles16
Sault Sainte Marie5.4 miles16
Gardenville7.6 miles16
Bay Mills7.8 miles14
Dafter8.0 miles15
Brimley8.3 miles14
Mission8.3 miles14
Rosedale9.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 637650. 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.