Christmas, Michigan
Christmas, Michigan | |
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 Santa's Workshop in Christmas | |
  Christmas  Christmas | |
| Coordinates: 46°26′13″N 86°42′6″W / 46.43694°N 86.70167°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Michigan |
| County |  Alger |
| Township | Au Train |
| Established | 1938 |
| Elevation | 617 ft (188 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code(s) | 49862 (Munising) |
| Area code | 906 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1619505[1] |
Christmas is an unincorporated community in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.[2] Christmas is located within Au Train Township in Alger County, and is located about 2.2 miles (3.5 km) northwest of the city of Munising. As an unincorporated community, Christmas has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own.
Christmas has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.[3]
History
[edit]Christmas was established by Julius Thorson, of Munising, who built a factory for holiday-themed products here in 1938. The surrounding area took on the name of the holiday, although in 1940, a fire destroyed the factory, ending Thorson's operation.[4][5]
Geography
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Christmas is located in Au Train Township, in central Alger County. The community is located along the shore of Bay Furnace, a small bay of Lake Superior. About 1.3 miles (2.1 km) northeast of Christmas is Grand Island.
Major highway
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M-28 / LSCT follows an east–west route through the community. The route can be used to access Marquette, about 35 miles (56 km) west, and Munising, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the southeast.
See also
[edit]- Place names considered unusual
- Christmas Island
- Christmas, Florida
- North Pole, Alaska
- North Pole, New York
- Noel, Missouri
- Santa Claus, Arizona
- Santa Claus, Indiana
- Bronner's Christmas Wonderland
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Christmas". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Geographic Names Information System". edits.nationalmap.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ Parker, Quentin (2010). Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15: An insider's guide to 201 of the world's weirdest and wildest places. Adams Media. pp. ix. ISBN 9781440507397.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Romig, Walter (1986). Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-8143-1838-X.
- ^ Romig, Walter (1986). Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 350. ISBN 0-8143-1838-X.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |