BlockWilliams Landing, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grand Island Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49862. The Survey maps it on the Munising quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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 Munising quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Munising quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Munising quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Williams Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 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 ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | ISLAND |
| 28 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 July 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | GAME FENSE |
| 13 July 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | MURRAY BAY |
| 12 July 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore | MARSH |
| 22 June 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hiawatha National Forest | WICKES POINT |
| 9 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | AUTRAIN TOWNSHIP VFD 0001220 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Williams Landing: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaw and Lobb Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas | 1.9 miles | 11 | |
| Munising | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Munising Junction | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Wetmore | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Indian Town | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Juniper | 7.7 miles | 12 | |
| Coalwood | 8.3 miles | 11 | |
| Stillman | 8.6 miles | 11 |
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 Q122559743 | The 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 1622174. 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.