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Fuller, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Watersmeet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49969. It stands on Marion Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fuller quadrangle.

Fuller within Gogebic County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fuller between 1998 and 2012, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
28 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestSITE 11
21 July 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOttawa National ForestBRUSH HOG FIRE
8 May 1998Smokingunder an acreOttawa National ForestBUTCH'S
30 May 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestMARION
7 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined53 acresOttawa National ForestOLD US 2 FIRE
7 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOttawa National ForestSUPERIOR SAWMILL FIR
28 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOttawa National ForestPAULDING
21 April 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOttawa National ForestTUTTLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gogebic County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fuller in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 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 2020Thunderstorm WindFuller$500There was a photo via social media of a tree down near Marion Lake. The time of the report was estimated from radar.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindFuller$500There was a police scanner report of a tree down blocking one lane of Highway US-45 north of Watersmeet. The time of the report was estimated from radar.

Every storm recorded in Gogebic 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
Tamarack3.2 miles14
Bonifas3.6 miles15
Watersmeet4.4 miles15
Katakitckon Indian Village10.1 miles15
Beaton12.5 miles14
Stickley15.5 miles13
Thayer19.1 miles13
Gogebic21.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617574. 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.