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Wainola, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Greenland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49948. The Survey maps it on the McKeever quadrangle.

Wainola within Ontonagon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wainola between 2004 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
14 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOttawa National ForestYELLOW DOG
10 June 2020Naturalunder an acreOttawa National ForestCOURTNEY LAKE
7 May 2015Natural6.6 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMASS
19 May 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ontonagon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Wainola: 20 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver. 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
Adventure Consolidated MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1850, 1851, 1917
Caledonia Mine (Nebraska)Copper, SilverProducer1855, 1863
Flintsteel River MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1853, 1881
Mass Consolidated MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1849, 1850
Algomah MineCopperPast Producer1910, 1956
AztecCopperPast Producer1852
Belt Mine (Piscatauqua)CopperPast ProducerSecondary Enrichment
Bohemian MineCopperPast Producer1848, 1886
Hilton MineCopperPast Producer1850, 1890
Knowlton MineCopperPast Producer1896, 1906

Every working recorded in Ontonagon County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wainola in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2019HailWainola-Nickel-sized hail was reported from a thunderstorm south of Mass City via a photo through social media.
May 2012HailWainola-Gusts up to 40 mph were reported with the storm.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWainola-A spotter just south of Mass City measured 63 mph wind gusts from a line of thunderstorms moving through the area. Pea-sized hail was also reported.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWainola-An apple tree six inches in diameter was knocked down. Various tree branches three inches in diameter were also down. Hanging plants were blown off the porch.

Every storm recorded in Ontonagon 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
Wasas1.3 miles13
McKeever1.5 miles13
Lake Mine3.2 miles13
Rousseau3.6 miles13
Mass City3.7 miles13
Greenland5.0 miles13
Rockland7.9 miles14
Old Victoria Historic Townsite10.5 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122556006The 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 1622042. 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.