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Swanzy, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Forsyth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49833. The Survey maps it on the Little Lake quadrangle.

Swanzy within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Swanzy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSKANDIA-WEST BRANCH FD 0000024 - 2019
29 August 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPORLEY TRAIL
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette 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 Swanzy: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1844, 1907, 1942
Archibald MineIronPast Producer1907, 1911
Austin MineIronPast Producer1844, 1905, 1929
Austin Mines Numbers 1 and 2IronPast Producer1903, 1905
Cleveland Cliffs Iron MineIronPast Producer
FrancisIronPast Producer1893
Francis MineIronPast Producer1844, 1893, 1939
Gardner-MackinawIronPast Producer1911, 1919
Gardner-Mackinaw MineIronPast Producer1844, 1919, 1941
Mackinaw-Gardner Iron MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marquette County

Storms near this place

10 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swanzy in 10 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 2018Thunderstorm WindSwanzy$20,000There was a report via social media of a large pine tree felled onto a house near K.I Sawyer. Numerous other trees were reported down in the area. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$10,000The Michigan DNR reported numerous large trees were uprooted or snapped.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$5,000A downed tree damaged the power mast of the roof on the northside of west Bass Lake. Report was relayed from the WJMNTV3 meteorologist.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$5,000A report via MPING of trees uprooted or snapped five miles southeast of Big Bass Lake. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$5,000The Marquette County Dispatch reported large trees down and downed wires suspended on other wires around the Princeton area west of Gwinn along Highway M-35 in Forsyth Township.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Swanzy$1,500Facebook message and image showing several large trees downed roughly five miles north of Princeton.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSwanzy$500There was a report via MPING of small tree limbs damaged near the K. I. Sawyer housing area four miles northeast of Gwinn.
July 2023HailSwanzy-One inch diameter hail was reported in Little Lake.
April 2017HailSwanzy-There was a public report of estimated golf ball sized hail at Engman Lake in West Branch Township.
April 2017HailSwanzy-A public report via MPING of penny-sized hail four miles northwest of Little Lake.

Every storm recorded in Marquette 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
Little Lake2.0 miles14
K I Sawyer2.1 miles18
Plains2.3 miles18
New Swanzy3.3 miles18
Gwinn3.8 miles18
Austin4.6 miles18
Princeton5.4 miles18
Cedar Bank5.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617886. 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.