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Thompson, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Thompson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49854. It stands on Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Manistique West quadrangle.

Thompson within Schoolcraft County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Thompson between 1994 and 2019, burning about 47 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPLAINS II
21 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMPSON TOWNSHIP FD 2019016 - 2019
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMPSON TOWNSHIP FD 2019014 - 2019
26 July 2015Railroad operations and maintenance16 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOOKS FIRE
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITTLE HARBOR
12 July 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Thompson: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Neadow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Schoolcraft County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thompson in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2013: 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
July 2013HailThompson-Penny to nickel-sized hail was reported along with 40 mph wind gusts.
July 2006HailThompson-Quarter-sized hail reported.
July 2000HailThompson-Nickle sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Schoolcraft 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
Minor Beach3.4 miles8
Michiwaukee Shores3.4 miles8
Springer4.0 miles8
Sunset Beach4.0 miles8
Evergreen Shores4.9 miles8
Elkhorn5.3 miles8
Harrison Beach5.4 miles8
Copenhagen Beach5.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1621898. 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.