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Stager, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Mastodon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49920. It stands on McGoverns Creek. The Survey maps it on the Florence West quadrangle.

Stager within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Stager between 1994 and 2020, burning about 203 acres 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
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Natural1

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
7 July 2007Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSECOND CROSSING 1
24 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesSECOND CROSSING 2
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2018Debris and open burning1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHARDING ROAD
4 May 2019Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBARA ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Stager: 13 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Olson Lake Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stager Manganese PropertyManganeseProspect
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1882, 1903
Alpha MineIronPast Producer1903
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1882, 1935
Balkan-Judson MineIronPast Producer1913
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1958
Book MineIronPast Producer1942, 1943
Delphic MineIronPast Producer1883, 1896
Delphic MineIronPast Producer1883

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stager in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 1 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 2017Thunderstorm WindStager$8,000The Iron County Sheriff reported a tree down on a house south of Crystal Falls near the Wisconsin state line.
April 2009HailStager-Hail lasted about three minutes. No strong winds were observed.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Mastodon1.9 miles12
Naults2.4 miles10
Alpha4.0 miles13
Panola4.2 miles12
Dunn Location5.5 miles12
Shafer Location6.5 miles12
Monongahela Location6.7 miles12
Kimball Location6.8 miles12

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 StagerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20709841The 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 1617862. 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.