Silver City, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Carp Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49953. It stands on Big Iron River. The Survey maps it on the White Pine quadrangle.

Silver City within Ontonagon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1949 USGS White Pine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS White Pine quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS White Pine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Ontonagon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Silver City in 2001, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural	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
30 June 2001	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ontonagon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Silver City: 11 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Beaser Silver Prospect	Gold	Occurrence	1873
Boston & North American Silver Prospect	Silver	Prospect	1845, 1846
Cleveland Silver Prospect	Silver	Past Producer	1874, 1875
Mammoth Silver Prospect	Silver	Occurrence	1873
Ontonagon Silver Mine	Silver	Past Producer	1873
Scranton Silver Mine	Silver	Past Producer	1872
Superior Silver Mine	Silver	Past Producer	1873, 1876
Cleveland Mine	Copper	Past Producer	Secondary Enrichment
Collins Mine	Copper	Past Producer	Secondary Enrichment
Halliwell Mine	Copper	Past Producer	1896, 1906

Every working recorded in Ontonagon County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver City in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Silver City	$4,000	The spotter at the headquarters of Porcupine Mountains State Park reported severe downdrafts, trees falling, dime-sized hail, significant lightning and heavy rain and runoff for approximately 20 minutes. Four large trees fell across roads, blocking lanes in the park.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Silver City	-	There was a public report of 1.91 inches of rainfall in Silver City over approximately 36 hours.
April 2011	Hail	Silver City	-	The observer also reported heavy rain.
April 2011	Hail	Silver City	-	The observer also reported heavy rain.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Silver City	-	Thunderstorm winds removed small branches from trees. Pea-sized hail was also reported.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Silver City	-	A severe thunderstorm downed a large poplar tree across Highway 107.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Silver City	-	Several trees down along Highway M-107.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Silver City	-	Several trees were blown down.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Silver City	-	Two large trees were broken off.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Silver City	-	Two foot diameter tree down across road. Other smaller trees also down.
October 2000	Wildfire	Silver City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ontonagon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
White Pine	5.3 miles	15
Nonesuch	5.8 miles	15
Green	6.9 miles	10
Carp Lake Landing	7.7 miles	13
Buckshot Landing	11.9 miles	14
Ontonagon	13.9 miles	9
LaFayette Landing	14.5 miles	14
Grand Rapids	16.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 637900. 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.