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Zeba, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in L'Anse Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49946. It stands on Little Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the L'Anse quadrangle. 397 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Zeba within Baraga County

On record in Zeba

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Zeba fell from 480 to 397 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
2010480
2020397-83 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

88 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Zeba between 1994 and 2020, burning about 744 acres in total. 6 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 burning40
Fireworks10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesL'ANSE FD 0201961 - 2019
7 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyZEBA ALLOTMENT
5 September 2011Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyLABOR
28 September 2013Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyUS 41 PINES
27 September 2013Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyUS 41 #1
27 September 2013Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyUS 41 #2
5 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyRR TRACKS
27 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan AgencyTWO BARRELS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baraga County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Zeba: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Copper. 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
Baraga County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gomanche Creek Slate QuarryGranitePast Producer
Unnamed Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Silver River Silver ProspectSilverProspectVein
Unnamed Silver ProspectSilverProspect

Every working recorded in Baraga County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zeba in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindZeba$2,000Facebook user shared pictures of a tree down over a road and on a primary power line three miles southeast of Assinins. Time of the report was estimated from radar.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindZeba$2,000There were social media photos of power poles snapped near the intersection of Johnson Road and Bayshore Road near Zeba. Time of the delayed report was estimated from radar.

Every storm recorded in Baraga 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
Assinins3.4 miles12
Pequaming3.5 miles12
L'Anse3.8 miles12
Baraga4.3 miles12
Bear Town5.1 miles12
Keweenaw Bay5.3 miles12
Bovine5.6 miles12
Aura6.6 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 ZebaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8068225The 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 1616916. 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.