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Siemens, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Bessemer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49911. The Survey maps it on the Bessemer quadrangle.

Siemens within Gogebic County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Siemens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 were 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 September 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBESSEMER FD 0200913 - 2020
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY 2 HWY 51 EXCHANGE
29 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER DRIVE POWER LINE
10 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWAKEFIELD FD 0540001 - 2020
3 May 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gogebic County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Siemens: 35 past producers, 6 occurrences, 5 producers, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gogebic County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hurley Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hurley Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Cebolski PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
City of Ironwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Globe Industries Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hurley Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron County OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Les Johnson Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Gogebic County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Siemens in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 2 hail, 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSiemens$1,000Law enforcement confirmed that a couple of trees fell across the road at the intersection of Old County and Geneva Roads just southwest of Bessemer.
May 2024HailSiemens-Report and pictures from Ironwood via social media of 1.5 to 2.0 inch diameter hailstones along a measuring tape.
May 2024HailSiemens-Picture via social media of hailstones larger than a quarter in Ironwood. Time of the report estimated from radar.

Every storm recorded in Gogebic 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
Jessieville2.0 miles14
Yale2.2 miles11
Bessemer2.7 miles11
Aurora2.9 miles14
Hillcrest3.0 miles14
North Bessemer3.1 miles9
Auvinen Corner3.1 miles9
North Ironwood3.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617851. 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.