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Williamsport, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Onekama Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49660. The Survey maps it on the Parkdale quadrangle.

Williamsport within Manistee County

On record in Williamsport

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Williamsport between 2005 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan AgencyLRBHOUSING
28 May 2012Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestOLD NEST
22 May 2015Other causesunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestFALK
18 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEAR LAKE FD 0018075 - 2018
14 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCOATS
14 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestASP
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMOONRIDGE
22 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestJOSEPH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manistee 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
Red Park1.2 miles9
Wic-a-te-wah2.1 miles9
Onekama3.1 miles9
Douglas3.3 miles9
Onekama Junction3.6 miles9
Newland4.1 miles9
Bar Lake4.8 miles9
Pierport4.9 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on WilliamsportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8021259The 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 2106973. 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.