Gulliver, Michigan
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Doyle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49840. It stands on Gents Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gulliver quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Gulliver quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Manistique quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Gulliver between 1995 and 2015, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 August 2007 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | REID ROAD |
| 24 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BURRELL RD FIRE |
| 11 May 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TOWNSHIP |
| 11 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERWIN LAKE FIRE |
| 15 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DIXNER ROAD |
| 10 April 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gulliver in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gulliver | $5,000 | Eight 12-inch diameter trees were snapped and uprooted by thunderstorm outflow winds from decaying cluster of thunderstorms to the west. Report was from social media. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gulliver | - | One to two inch diameter tree branches were broken off. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Gulliver | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Gulliver | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Gulliver | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkington | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Blaney Junction | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Inland | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Blaney Park | 9.6 miles | 11 | |
| Manistique | 12.6 miles | 6 | |
| Ossawinamakee Beach | 14.9 miles | 8 | |
| Copenhagen Beach | 15.0 miles | 8 | |
| Harrison Beach | 15.4 miles | 8 |
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 Q136353040 | 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 627526. 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.




