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Three Lakes, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Spurr Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49861. It stands on Canal Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Three Lakes quadrangle.

Three Lakes within Baraga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Three Lakes between 1992 and 2012, burning about 6 acres in total. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
25 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCROOKED LAKE
2 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTHOMAS LAKE
18 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1995Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baraga County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Three Lakes: 20 past producers, 14 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Mead PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mead PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Beaufort MineIronPast Producer1882, 1905
Beaufort MineIronPast Producer1882
C C I Exploration S50IronProspect
C C I Exploration S53IronProspect
C C I Prospect S59IronProspect
C C I Prospect S89IronProspect

Every working recorded in Baraga County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Three Lakes in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 4 hail, 3 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
July 1999Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes$100,000Trees uprooted - power lines down - some trees on houses. A resort at Lake Ruth suffered wind damage to its main lodge, three cabins, and two sheds. Six of its twelve 14 foot fishing boats were damaged beyond repair. Two houses on Lake George were seriously damaged by falling trees.
July 2002HailThree Lakes-Golfball sized hail was reported.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-Numerous 18 inch diameter trees were blown down.
July 2002HailThree Lakes-Golfball sized hail was reported.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindThree Lakes-Large tree down.
May 2007HailThree Lakes-no account filed
July 2006HailThree Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baraga 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
Nestoria3.5 miles12
Imperial Heights4.0 miles15
Tioga7.8 miles12
Herman11.7 miles12
Vermilac13.8 miles12
Alberta16.0 miles12
Bovine16.7 miles12
Covington17.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617894. 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.