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South Range, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49963. The Survey maps it on the South Range quadrangle. 750 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

South Range within Houghton County

On record in South Range

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

South Range fell from 758 to 750 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
2010758
2020750-8 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of South Range between 1994 and 2019, burning about 14 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHANCOCK FD 0000025 - 2018
8 May 1994Debris and open burning7.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFREDA
24 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURONTOWN FIRE/RESCUE 0000023 - 2018
14 April 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 October 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of South Range: 31 past producers, 11 prospects, 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
Sturgeon Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Isle RoyaleCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1853
Isle Royale AmygdaloidCopper, SilverPast Producer1852, 1968
Isle Royale MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1853, 1885
SuperiorCopper, SilverPast Producer1904, 1908
Baltic PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dodgeville Pit and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
G and S Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gedvillas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Houghton Co Road Commission PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Range in 2 storm reports in 2007: 2 hail. 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 2007HailSouth Range-no account filed
October 2007HailSouth Range-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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
Baltic0.5 miles19
Mill Mine Junction1.1 miles19
Trimountain1.4 miles19
Atlantic Mine2.1 miles19
Painesdale2.4 miles19
Superior2.4 miles19
Champion Mine2.8 miles19
Dodgeville3.7 miles19

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 South RangeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2053514The 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 638402. 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.