Williams Crossing, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Munising Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49884. The Survey maps it on the Melstrand quadrangle.

Williams Crossing within Alger County

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.

1958 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Shingleton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Melstrand quadrangle1:25000
1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Williams Crossing between 1993 and 2006, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
13 September 2001	Fireworks	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alger County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Williams Crossing: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Linberg Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
State Pit # 225	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Copper Prospect	Copper	Occurrence

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Myren	1.2 miles	11
Melstrand	2.0 miles	11
Van Meer	2.2 miles	11
Shingleton	6.6 miles	12
Star	6.9 miles	12
Indian Town	6.9 miles	12
Evelyn	7.1 miles	12
Doty	7.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1622170. 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.