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Stambaugh, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Iron River City. It lies in ZIP code area 49935. It stands on Holmes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Iron River quadrangle. 1,243 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 1,634 feet above sea level.

Stambaugh within Iron County

On record in Stambaugh

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 12 of 14 shown

Every listing in Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Stambaugh between 1993 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
18 August 2019Other causesunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLOG CABIN
8 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0022-19 - 2019
20 June 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0023-19 - 2019
6 May 1995Debris and open burning4.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0002220 - 2020
26 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0020-19 - 2019
21 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0019-19 - 2019
15 May 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST IRON COUNTY FD 0021-18 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 585 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 585 workings within 5 miles of Stambaugh: 464 prospects, 97 past producers, 16 occurrences, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Cannon MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Sherwood MineAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1851, 1943
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Caspian Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Us 2 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Iron County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Proksch No 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Arlington MineIronProspectSecondary Enrichment
Aronson Hole 97IronProspect
Aronson Iron MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stambaugh in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindStambaugh$10,000Delayed report of downed trees and power outages at a cabin on Ice Lake. Time estimated from radar.
April 2004HailStambaugh-Golf-ball sized hail was reported.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindStambaugh-Trees down on power lines.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindStambaugh-10 inch diameter branch fell off at the intersection of Hemlock and Ross.

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
Hiawatha Location1.1 miles14
Iron River1.1 miles14
Caspian1.2 miles14
Bates Junction1.4 miles12
Virgil Location1.9 miles14
Gaastra1.9 miles12
Palatka2.2 miles12
Bates Location2.3 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 StambaughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1818315The 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 1621758. 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.