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Wallace, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mellen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49893. The Survey maps it on the Wallace quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Wallace within Menominee 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Wallace between 1992 and 2019, burning about 107 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Natural2
Fireworks1
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
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2018Debris and open burning1.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRANGE LINE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menominee County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Wallace: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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
B & K PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boonies Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bridge Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cow Chip Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Menominee County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Packard Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Slawinski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Menominee County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindWallace$3,000Various trees reported down on power lines. Time is estimated from radar.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWallace$500The Menominee County Central Dispatch reported a tree down just north of Wallace. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWallace-Menominee County 911 reports multiple trees down in the area of G-08 and county roads 577 and 581.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWallace-Small branches were knocked down by strong thunderstorm winds in Wallace.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWallace-Ten-inch diameter tree limbs down east of Highway US-41 on County Road 342.
June 2006Heavy RainWallace-1.12 inches of rain was measured in the town of Wallace over a 20-minute period.
May 2002HailWallace-Nickel sized hail was reported.
July 2025HailWallace-no account filed
August 2008HailWallace-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Menominee 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
Carbondale3.3 miles8
Ingalls3.5 miles8
Hansen6.0 miles9
Stephenson6.2 miles8
Koss6.6 miles8
Palestine6.9 miles8
Longrie8.1 miles8
Birch Creek8.5 miles9

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 Q136353117The 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 1615709. 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.