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Crystallia, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Crystal Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49635. It stands on Burrows Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort quadrangle.

Crystallia within Benzie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Crystallia between 2000 and 2019, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 May 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000031 - 2018
18 April 2004Power generation/transmission/distribution7.6 acresSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreBANCROFT
26 March 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreLONG LAKE
25 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKFORT-ELBERTA VFD 0000026 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benzie 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 Crystallia: 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
Benzie County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Benzie 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
Pilgrim0.6 miles11
Oberlin (historical)2.0 miles11
Chimney Corners Resort2.4 miles11
Frankfort2.8 miles11
Elberta3.9 miles10
Edgewater7.9 miles10
Watervale8.4 miles10
Benzonia8.6 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122593995The 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 624188. 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.