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Winthrop Junction, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Ishpeming City. It lies in ZIP code area 49849. It lies near Pilot Knob. The Survey maps it on the Ishpeming quadrangle.

Winthrop Junction within Marquette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Winthrop Junction between 1994 and 2020, burning about 67 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
4 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.1 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARD ROCK FIRE
30 July 2004Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marquette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 163 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 163 workings within 5 miles of Winthrop Junction: 103 past producers, 28 prospects, 18 occurrences, 12 producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, 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
Gold&Copper&Tungsten&Zinc ProspectCopper, Gold, Tungsten, ZincOccurrence
Mi.Verde Antique Co.Dolomite QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
RopesGold, SilverPlant1880, 1882
Unnamed Copper and Tungsten ProspecCopper, TungstenOccurrence
Unnamed Copper and Zinc ProspectCopper, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed Copper&Molybdenum ProspectCopper, MolybdenumOccurrence
Unnamed Molybdenum ProspectMolybdenumOccurrence
Ropes MineGold, SilverProducer1880, 1882, 1989
Superior Gold & Silver ExplorationGold, SilverProspect1889
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Marquette 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
Frenchtown0.5 miles15
Salisbury0.5 miles15
Lake Angeline0.6 miles15
West Ishpeming0.9 miles15
National Mine1.2 miles15
Ishpeming1.3 miles15
North Lake2.5 miles15
Greenwood3.7 miles13

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 Q122551354The 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 1616652. 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.