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Schultz, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hope Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49058. The Survey maps it on the Dowling quadrangle.

Schultz within Barry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Schultz between 1992 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000250 - 2019
29 July 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000234 - 2018
8 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHASTINGS FD 0000205 - 2018
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000174 - 2018
21 May 1992Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000172 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry 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 Schultz: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Sutherland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schultz in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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 2019Thunderstorm WindSchultz$150,000Barry county dispatch reported trees and power lines were blown down across large portions of the county.

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Podunk2.1 miles12
Cloverdale3.5 miles13
Cedar Creek4.3 miles12
Hastings5.4 miles12
Circle Pine Center6.1 miles13
Dowling6.4 miles12
Delton6.5 miles19
Quimby6.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617839. 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.