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Williamsburg, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Whitewater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49690. It stands on Bissell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle.

Williamsburg within Grand Traverse 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Williamsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Natural1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan AgencyTURTLE CREEK 2
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 05 - ROOTS LAKE
5 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2001Fireworks3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 August 1992Natural6.8 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 July 2001Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamsburg in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg$18,000Grand Traverse 911 Facebook page reported powerlines down resulting in closure of Williamsburg Road between Crisp Road and Supply Road.
July 2006LightningWilliamsburg$5,000Home damaged by lightning strike.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg$3,000Trees downed in Williamsburg.
May 2012HailWilliamsburg-Hail was mostly quarter-sized or smaller, but there were a few half-dollar hailstones.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-Trees and power lines down.
August 2015HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
June 2008HailWilliamsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Traverse 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
Bates2.1 miles12
Mabel2.5 miles12
Angel4.1 miles12
Yuba4.5 miles12
Acme5.2 miles12
Fivemile Corner6.6 miles13
Devils Elbow7.3 miles14
Jacks Landing7.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616512. 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.

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.