BlockBefore

Eckerman, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chippewa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49728. The Survey maps it on the Eckerman quadrangle. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Eckerman within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Eckerman between 1994 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestECKERMAN CORNER
19 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use25 acresSeney National Wildlife RefugeDIVERTED FLIGHT
14 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestNOODLE
9 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHiawatha National ForestTRAILER TRASH
5 July 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSALT
4 July 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreHiawatha National ForestSOD FIRE
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHiawatha National ForestCLUELESS
28 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHiawatha National ForestTWO DAYS LATE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eckerman in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 2006Thunderstorm WindEckerman$8,000Numerous trees and power lines downed in western Chippewa County.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEckerman$2,000Trained spotter reported trees downed on McNearney Lake. Time estimated by radar.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEckerman$2,000Multiple power lines were blown down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindEckerman$1,000Several pine trees lost large limbs.
June 2024HailEckerman-Report of one inch hail.
July 2005HailEckerman-Several strong thunderstorms developed along a cold front in eastern Upper Michigan.
March 2007HailEckerman-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEckerman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Eckerman Corner1.4 miles13
Seewhy3.3 miles13
Strongs3.5 miles15
Strongs Corner3.7 miles15
Hulbert6.1 miles14
Trout Lake11.9 miles12
Emerson13.2 miles12
Snug Harbor13.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122549910The 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 625333. 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.

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.