Au Sable River Park, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Richfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48656. The Survey maps it on the Saint Helen NW quadrangle.

Au Sable River Park within Roscommon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS St. Helen NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Houghton Lake quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Au Sable River Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 506 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
28 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.8 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.7 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROSCOMMON 10
4 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROSCOMMON 12 - DRAGON FIRE
8 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ROSCOMMON 02 - MOORE RD
8 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	RICHFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000050 - 2020
6 July 2007	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 July 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 July 2001	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roscommon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Au Sable River Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	State of Michigan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Roscommon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Geels	1.8 miles	10
Artesia Beach	3.6 miles	10
Saint Helen	3.8 miles	10
Keno	5.4 miles	10
Maple Valley	7.0 miles	10
Roscommon	9.6 miles	10
Sharps Corners	11.9 miles	11
Prudenville	12.5 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122538886

The 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 620330. 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.