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Winona, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Elm River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49965. The Survey maps it on the Winona South quadrangle.

Winona within Houghton County

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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Winona between 1995 and 2010, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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 ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
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
2 September 2008Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAINSTORM
27 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 June 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLEAR LAKE FIRE
2 April 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOUNTY LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Winona: 12 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
George Hocking Constr Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Houghton Co Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Houghton Co Road Commission PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Winona PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Algonquin MineCopperPast Producer1847
Cherokee MineCopperPast Producer1864, 1917
Eagle ExplorationCopperProspect1853, 1866
Elm River MineCopperPast Producer1899, 1906
King Philip Cu MineCopperPast Producer
King Philip MineCopperPast ProducerSecondary Enrichment

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winona in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 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 2006HailWinona-A camp sustained hail damage.

Every storm recorded in Houghton 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
Wyandotte2.0 miles12
Lake Roland2.4 miles12
Twin Lakes3.4 miles12
Donken7.6 miles12
White8.6 miles12
Stonington9.5 miles12
Nisula9.6 miles12
Alston11.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1622185. 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.