BlockWilliamsville, Michigan
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Porter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49095. The Survey maps it on the Mottville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1948 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Mottville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Mottville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Williamsville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000034 - 2018 |
| 3 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 150 - 2020 |
| 3 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2019 |
| 3 April 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002395 - 2019 |
| 27 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 9.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002393 - 2019 |
| 25 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SEPSA FIRE AUTHORITY 124 - 2018 |
| 26 December 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PENN TOWNSHIP FD 0000107 - 2018 |
| 30 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEWBERG TOWNSHIP FD 0002558 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calvin Center | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Jones | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Vandalia | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Brownsville | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Union | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Spring Beach | 5.7 miles | 16 | |
| Diamond Shores | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Corey | 6.0 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616516. 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.