Hulbert, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hulbert Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49748. It stands on Riley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hulbert quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Hulbert within Chippewa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1951 USGS Eckerman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Hulbert quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Manistique Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hulbert between 1994 and 2019, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
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
19 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Seney National Wildlife Refuge	DIVERTED FLIGHT
7 May 1994	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HULBERT TOWNSHIP FD 0050519 - 2019
25 May 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	HULBERT LAKE
23 May 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hiawatha National Forest	MIDNIGHT
19 May 2001	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 May 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.3 acres	Hiawatha National Forest	CEDAR SWAMP #1
22 April 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CABLEMAN ROAD #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Seewhy	2.9 miles	13
Eckerman	6.1 miles	13
Eckerman Corner	6.4 miles	13
Strongs	9.6 miles	15
Strongs Corner	9.6 miles	15
Trout Lake	13.1 miles	12
Whitehouse Landing	13.7 miles	14
Timberlost	14.3 miles	14

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 Hulbert	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q131543337	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 628792. 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.