Kremlin, Wisconsin

This article is about a settlement. For other uses, see Kremlin (disambiguation).

Kremlin, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 45°39′03″N87°50′41″W / 45.65083°N 87.84472°W / 45.65083; -87.84472
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Marinette
Elevation	257 m (843 ft)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	715 & 534
GNIS feature ID	1577684 [1]

Kremlin is an unincorporated community located in the town of Pembine, Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States.

Geography

Kremlin, 1912 map detail

Kremlin is located along the Canadian National Railway 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Niagara. It stand at the east end of Kremlin Road, where it intersects with Chapman Road, ^[2] at an elevation of 843 feet (257 m). ^[1] It is connected by road to Pembine to the west and by rail to Faithorn, Michigan to the east. ^[2] The Menominee River flows to the east, past Nose Peak Island and the Pemebonwon Islands. Kimlark Lake (elevation 810 ft or 250 m) lies immediately to the north of Kremlin, and Long Lake (elevation 806 ft or 246 m) to the west. ^[2]

Name

Kremlin was named after the Moscow Kremlin in 1886 by English financiers of the railroad through the settlement, ^[3] possibly because relatives of the financiers were married to Russian nobility. ^[3]

History

There was formerly a post office in Kremlin. ^[4] On January 2, 1909, the last known cougar sighting in Wisconsin occurred at Kremlin ^{[5] [6]} until the species reappeared in the state in 2009. ^[7] In 1939, the company Flintkote Roofing established a plant in Kremlin to produce crushed stone for roofing, ^{[8] [9] [10]} operated by the Staso Milling Company. ^{[3] [11]} The plant was then owned by the Central Commercial Company and then the Ruberoid Company, which merged to create GAF Materials Corporation in 1967. ^[3] A reforestation program was started in Kremlin in 1946, involving the planting of 550,000 white pine, red pine, and jack pine. ^[12] In 1982 a natural gas pipeline was built to the area to power the mining operations; the gas was supplied from a Michigan Consolidated Gas substation south of Vulcan, Michigan, and the pipeline runs under the Menominee River and Sturgeon River. ^{[13] [14]}

Industry

Kremlin is currently the location of a Specialty Granules Incorporated (SGI) plant, where there is an open-pit quarry for meta-andesite rock. The rock is crushed and processed into semi-ceramic coated colored roofing granules at the site. ^[15]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kremlin, Wisconsin
2. Pembine Quadrangle Wisconsin–Marinette Co., 15 Minute Series (Topographic). 1963. Map, 1:62,500. Washington, DC: U. S. Geological Survey.
3. "GAF Products from Pembine Cover Rooftops". The Green Bay Press-Gazette. January 17, 1971. p. 29. Retrieved December 17, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
4. "Admits Postal Robbery". The La Crosse Tribune. November 26, 1913. p. 3. Retrieved August 15, 2014– via Newspapers.com.
5. Cory, Charles Barney (1912). The Mammals of Illinois and Wisconsin. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. p. 282.
6. Jackson, Hartley Harrad Thompson (1961). Mammals of Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 392.
7. Carlson, James A. (April 22, 2009). "Sightings Show Cougars Expanding into Central U.S." The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on July 3, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
8. "New Plant Going Up near Pembine". The Green Bay Press-Gazette. July 29, 1939. p. 12. Retrieved December 19, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
9. "New Rock Crushing Plant at Pembine". The Green Bay Press-Gazette. August 3, 1939. p. 18. Retrieved August 15, 2014– via Newspapers.com.
10. "Report Progress on Building at Kremlin". The Green Bay Press-Gazette. August 31, 1939. p. 17. Retrieved December 16, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
11. "Plant Erected near Pembine". The Escanaba Daily Press. November 29, 1939. p. 5. Retrieved December 16, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
12. "Tree Planting to Begin in Marinette County on May 1". The Green Bay Press-Gazette. April 24, 1946. p. 18. Retrieved December 18, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
13. "U.P.–Pembine Natural Gas Pipeline Planned". The Green Bay Press-Gazette. February 28, 1982. p. 49. Retrieved December 20, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
14. "Gas Pipeline Construction Progressing". The Green Bay Press-Gazette. October 24, 1982. p. 44. Retrieved December 20, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
15. "SGI: Locations" . Retrieved December 15, 2019.

External links

• Media related to Kremlin, Wisconsin at Wikimedia Commons