Christmas, Michigan

Unincorporated community in Michigan, United States

46°26′13″N 86°42′6″W / 46.43694°N 86.70167°W / 46.43694; -86.70167Country

United StatesState

MichiganCounty

AlgerTownshipAu TrainEstablished1938Elevation

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617 ft (188 m)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP code(s)

49862 (Munising)

Area code906GNIS feature ID1619505^[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

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

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

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.

References

^ ^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.