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Alabaster, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Alabaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48763. It stands on Mason Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alabaster quadrangle.

Alabaster within Iosco County

On record in Alabaster

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Alabaster between 1994 and 2020, burning about 68 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
22 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARENAC 06
4 August 2016Recreation and ceremony26 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMARGO
8 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAWAS CITY FD 0000036 - 2019
2 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestORACLE
18 May 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTOWNLINE
4 April 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestALABASTER
19 April 1994Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestCHOO-CHOO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alabaster: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alabaster Mine and MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Alabaster QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1865, 2001
Glancy Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Iosco Co Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alabaster in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 flood. 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
May 2020FloodAlabaster$1,200,000Widespread areal flooding developed in central and southern Iosco County on the 18th. Many creeks and rivers rose out of their banks, including the Au Gres River system and Silver Creek and its tributaries. Many roads across the county were closed, including Meadow Road in Tawas City. Railroad tracks were also washed out in Tawas City. Townline Road in Tawas Township was washed out by Dead Creek. Flooding along the Lake Huron coastline was worsened by lakeshore flooding thanks to onshore winds.

Every storm recorded in Iosco 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
Cedar Haven0.7 miles11
Benson Park1.2 miles11
Oak Wood Shores1.8 miles11
Hyde Park2.1 miles11
Huron Oaks2.8 miles11
Lake Huron Beach3.3 miles11
Anderson Bayview3.5 miles11
Alabaster Junction4.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 619883. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.