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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.

Gulliver within Schoolcraft County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

10 since 1995

Regional 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 August 2007Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Natural1.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesREID ROAD
24 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURRELL RD FIRE
11 May 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTOWNSHIP
11 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMERWIN LAKE FIRE
15 April 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDIXNER ROAD
10 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGulliver$5,000Eight 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 2002Thunderstorm WindGulliver-One to two inch diameter tree branches were broken off.
May 2008HailGulliver-no account filed
July 2007HailGulliver-no account filed
July 2007HailGulliver-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoolcraft 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
Parkington3.6 miles11
Blaney Junction5.8 miles11
Inland8.2 miles11
Blaney Park9.6 miles11
Manistique12.6 miles6
Ossawinamakee Beach14.9 miles8
Copenhagen Beach15.0 miles8
Harrison Beach15.4 miles8

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 Q136353040The 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.