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Lulu, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ida Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48140. It stands on Darrow Drain. The Survey maps it on the Ida quadrangle.

Lulu within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

47 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Lulu between 2018 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEDFORD FD 0001898 - 2018
29 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 284 - 2018
24 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 295 - 2020
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITEFORD TOWNSHIP VFD 0000190 - 2019
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 283 - 2020
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 444 - 2020
24 July 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 219 - 2020
21 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 258 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lulu: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
R. W. Sidley-Conneaut PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lulu in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLulu$2,000Large tree and wires reported down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLulu-Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLulu-Multiple trees reported down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLulu-Multiple trees reported down.
March 2012HailLulu-no account filed
March 2012HailLulu-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Ida Center2.3 miles19
Ida2.9 miles18
Diann3.9 miles16
Petersburg Junction4.9 miles16
Yargerville5.1 miles19
Samaria5.2 miles19
Petersburg5.7 miles16
Dundee5.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 631207. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.