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East Tawas, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in East Tawas City. It lies in ZIP code area 48730. It stands on Cold Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Tawas quadrangle. 2,663 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

East Tawas within Iosco County

On record in East Tawas

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

Population over time

2 figures

East Tawas fell from 2,808 to 2,663 between 2010 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
20102,808
20202,663-145 (-5%)

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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of East Tawas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined19
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
26 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWILLIMENT
13 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAWAS CITY FD 0000081 - 2019
11 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBISCHOFF
5 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMEADOWS
31 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestINEZ
24 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSPARTON
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestREDBIRD
2 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMARGO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Tawas in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 7 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas$10,000Metal roof blown off a barn.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Marine wind sensor on Tawas Bay reported wind gust to 60mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Measured wind gust at Tawas Point.
July 2009HailEast Tawas-Penny sized hail at Red Hawk Golf Course.
April 2008HailEast Tawas-Mostly pea sized hail, but a few hailstones as large as nickels.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Several trees were downed.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Trees and power lines down.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Several trees of up to 12 - 24 inches in diameter were toppled across the city.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Tawas-Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines countywide.
May 2018HailEast Tawas-no account filed
February 2017HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 2006HailEast Tawas-no account filed
July 2006HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 2000HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 2000HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 1998HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 1998HailEast Tawas-no account filed
May 1994HailEast Tawas-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
Tawas City1.5 miles14
Clark Bayshore3.5 miles11
Anderson Bayview4.1 miles11
Lake Huron Beach4.4 miles11
Alabaster Junction4.5 miles11
Huron Oaks4.8 miles11
Hyde Park5.4 miles11
Oak Wood Shores5.8 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 East TawasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3308092The 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 625264. 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.