BlockHard Luck, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grim Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48610. The Survey maps it on the Sterling SW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Sterling SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Houghton Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
25 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hard Luck between 1992 and 2019, burning about 332 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 June 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ARENAC #006 |
| 7 May 2004 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 9.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowmanville | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Secord | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Wooden Shoe Village | 10.8 miles | 10 | |
| White Star | 11.1 miles | 10 | |
| Sugar Rapids | 11.4 miles | 9 | |
| Highwood | 11.6 miles | 10 | |
| Rhodes | 11.8 miles | 10 | |
| Hockaday | 12.5 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617608. 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.