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Christmas, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Au Train Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49862. It stands on Gongeau Creek. The Survey maps it on the Munising quadrangle.

Christmas within Alger County

On record in Christmas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Christmas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestISLAND
28 August 2003Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestGAME FENSE
13 July 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestMURRAY BAY
22 June 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHiawatha National ForestWICKES POINT
9 May 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesAUTRAIN TOWNSHIP VFD 0001220 - 2020
2 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger 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 Christmas: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Shaw and Lobb Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Alger County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Christmas in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2017HailChristmas-There was a public report of 1.5 inch diameter hail near Christmas. The hail lasted approximately ten minutes.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Christmas-Brief tornado downed several tree branches on Grand Island.
May 2009HailChristmas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alger 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
Williams Landing1.9 miles11
Munising3.4 miles11
Munising Junction4.0 miles11
Wetmore5.8 miles12
Coalwood6.8 miles11
Stillman7.0 miles11
Au Train7.2 miles11
Indian Town7.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1619505. 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.