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.
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
Kewawenon Missionlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresZeba 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 480 | |
| 2020 | 397 | -83 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Keweenaw Bay quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Iron River quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS L'Anse quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS L'Anse quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
88 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 40 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | L'ANSE FD 0201961 - 2019 |
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Agency | ZEBA ALLOTMENT |
| 5 September 2011 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | LABOR |
| 28 September 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | US 41 PINES |
| 27 September 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | US 41 #1 |
| 27 September 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | US 41 #2 |
| 5 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Agency | RR TRACKS |
| 27 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Agency | TWO BARRELS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baraga County Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gomanche Creek Slate Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Copper Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Silver River Silver Prospect | Silver | Prospect | Vein | |
| Unnamed Silver Prospect | Silver | Prospect |
Storms near this place
2 since 2020Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Zeba | $2,000 | Facebook 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Zeba | $2,000 | There 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. |
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.
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 Zeba | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8068225 | The 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.






