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Verona, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Wakefield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49968. It stands on Little Black River. The Survey maps it on the Wakefield quadrangle.

Verona within Gogebic County

On record in Verona

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Verona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 September 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBESSEMER FD 0200913 - 2020
7 May 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWAKEFIELD FD 0540001 - 2020
30 April 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOttawa National ForestJOHNSON ROAD
17 October 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gogebic County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Verona: 39 past producers, 14 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
Unnamed Lead ProspectLeadOccurrence
Cebolski PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Les Johnson Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Randall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Anvil-Palms-Keeweenaw GroupIronPast Producer1886, 1887
Anvil-Palms-Keweenaw GroupIronPast Producer1887, 1957
Castile-Meteor MineIronPast ProducerSecondary Enrichment
Chicago Mines (Sparta)IronPast Producer1892, 1915
Chicago- Includes Former SpartaIronPast Producer1892
Colby MineIronPast Producer1884, 1923

Every working recorded in Gogebic County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verona in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindVerona$3,000The State Police Dispatch reported trees down across a couple of roads in the Wakefield area, and parts of the city were without power.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindVerona$2,000Numerous trees were reported down along old Highway US-2 near Gogebic Medical Care Facility. The time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindVerona-The mesonet station at Wakefield measured a thunderstorm wind gust to 59 mph.

Every storm recorded in Gogebic 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
Ramsay0.6 miles13
Plymouth1.0 miles13
Wico1.6 miles13
Anvil1.6 miles11
Planter2.5 miles13
Wakefield2.6 miles13
Bessemer3.4 miles11
Yale4.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1622021. 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.