Benson Park, 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.

Benson Park within Iosco County

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.

1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Alabaster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Benson Park between 1994 and 2020, burning about 66 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 ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
22 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARENAC 06
5 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	MEADOWS
4 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	26 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	MARGO
8 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAWAS CITY FD 0000036 - 2019
2 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	PLANK
2 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	ORACLE
18 May 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	TOWNLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Benson Park: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Glancy Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Alabaster Mine and Mill	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Alabaster Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	1865, 2001

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Oak Wood Shores	0.6 miles	11
Hyde Park	0.9 miles	11
Alabaster	1.2 miles	11
Huron Oaks	1.6 miles	11
Cedar Haven	1.9 miles	11
Lake Huron Beach	2.1 miles	11
Anderson Bayview	2.3 miles	11
Alabaster Junction	3.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621127. 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.