BlockHelps, Michigan
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spalding Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49873. It stands on Helps Creek. The Survey maps it on the Helps quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Foster City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Helps quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Helps between 2010 and 2018, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | 9 VOLT TOENAIL |
| 27 May 2010 | Natural | 5.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GLUG GLUG |
| 18 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MEAD ROAD FIRE |
| 20 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RICKETY BRIDGE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faunus | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| LaBranche | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Vega | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Leapers | 11.1 miles | 9 | |
| Whitney | 13.5 miles | 8 | |
| Cunard | 13.8 miles | 7 | |
| Hermansville | 15.2 miles | 7 | |
| Perronville | 15.9 miles | 9 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Helps | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20657841 | 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 1617616. 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.