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Eckerman Corner, 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.

Eckerman Corner 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

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Eckerman Corner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 August 2000Smokingunder an acreHiawatha National ForestCAR MAT
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
2 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHULBERT TOWNSHIP FD 0070220 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Eckerman1.4 miles13
Strongs Corner3.3 miles15
Strongs3.3 miles15
Seewhy3.4 miles13
Hulbert6.4 miles14
Trout Lake10.5 miles12
Cordell14.5 miles11
Emerson14.5 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 Q122594162The 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 1619828. 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.