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Au Sable, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Au Sable Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48750. It stands on Au Sable River. The Survey maps it on the Oscoda quadrangle. 1,453 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 592 feet above sea level.

Au Sable within Iosco County

Population over time

3 figures

Au Sable fell from 1,533 to 1,453 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,533
20101,404-129 (-8%)
20201,453+49 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Au Sable between 1992 and 2020, burning about 278 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIOSCO #2 PERSEPHONE
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremony12 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestBUSCH
16 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSOCLISTOR
5 August 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIOSCO 08 - CIGARETTE FIRE
4 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWHIRLPOOL
23 August 2013Recreation and ceremony2.7 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestFOOTE SITE
18 August 2004Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestREMPERT 2
16 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Au Sable in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAu Sable-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2014HailAu Sable-no account filed
May 2009HailAu Sable-no account filed
June 2008HailAu Sable-no account filed
June 2008HailAu Sable-no account filed
May 2006HailAu Sable-no account filed

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
Oscoda0.7 miles13
Lincoln Junction5.7 miles13
Foote Site Village6.1 miles13
Wilber8.4 miles13
East Tawas12.3 miles13
Tawas City13.7 miles14
Sid Town14.8 miles14
Clark Bayshore15.8 miles11

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 Au SableAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1872877The 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 620323. 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.

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.