Clark Bayshore, 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 Tawas River. The Survey maps it on the Alabaster quadrangle.

Clark Bayshore 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Clark Bayshore between 1994 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
26 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WILLIMENT
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAWAS CITY FD 0000081 - 2019
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
31 August 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	INEZ
24 August 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	SPARTON
2 August 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	MARGO
12 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EAST TAWAS FD 0000122 - 2018

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 Clark Bayshore: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. 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
Tawas City Eastern Clay Pit	Clay	Past 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
Anderson Bayview	0.7 miles	11
Lake Huron Beach	1.0 miles	11
Alabaster Junction	1.3 miles	11
Huron Oaks	1.4 miles	11
Tawas City	2.1 miles	14
Hyde Park	2.1 miles	11
Oak Wood Shores	2.5 miles	11
Benson Park	3.0 miles	11

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 Q122563316

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 623344. 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.