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White Pine, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Carp Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49971. It stands on Paystreak Creek. The Survey maps it on the White Pine quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

White Pine within Ontonagon County

Population over time

2 figures

White Pine fell from 474 to 339 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010474
2020339-135 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of White Pine: 14 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Silver, Gold. 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
(Facility) White Pine Copper RefineryCopper, Gold, SilverPlant
Beaser Silver ProspectGoldOccurrence1873
Boston & North American Silver ProspectSilverProspect1845, 1846
Cleveland Silver ProspectSilverPast Producer1874, 1875
Mammoth Silver ProspectSilverOccurrence1873
Ontonagon Silver MineSilverPast Producer1873
Scranton Silver MineSilverPast Producer1872
Superior Silver MineSilverPast Producer1873, 1876
White Pine MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1937, 1945, 1995
Cleveland MineCopperPast ProducerSecondary Enrichment

Every working recorded in Ontonagon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Pine in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2022Flash FloodWhite Pine$20,000Heavy rain estimates of 4 to 5 inches from early morning through late afternoon caused a washout of Norwich Road in Ontonagon County 13 miles south of Highway M-64.
June 2000HailWhite Pine-no account filed

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
Nonesuch1.9 miles15
Silver City5.3 miles15
Carp Lake Landing8.8 miles13
Green9.6 miles10
Bergland11.2 miles12
Buckshot Landing12.0 miles14
Lake Gogebic12.3 miles12
Merriweather12.7 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on White PineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7995194The 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 1622143. 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.

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.