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.
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
Tawas Point Light Stationlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresEast 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,808 | |
| 2020 | 2,663 | -145 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1959 USGS East Tawas quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1989 USGS East Tawas quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
75 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
| 11 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | BISCHOFF |
| 5 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | MEADOWS |
| 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 |
| 24 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | REDBIRD |
| 2 August 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Huron-Manistee National Forest | MARGO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Tawas | $10,000 | Metal roof blown off a barn. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Tawas | - | Marine wind sensor on Tawas Bay reported wind gust to 60mph. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Tawas | - | Measured wind gust at Tawas Point. |
| July 2009 | Hail | East Tawas | - | Penny sized hail at Red Hawk Golf Course. |
| April 2008 | Hail | East Tawas | - | Mostly pea sized hail, but a few hailstones as large as nickels. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Tawas | - | Several trees were downed. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Tawas | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Tawas | - | Several trees of up to 12 - 24 inches in diameter were toppled across the city. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Tawas | - | Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and powerlines countywide. |
| May 2018 | Hail | East Tawas | - | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Hail | East Tawas | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | East Tawas | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | East Tawas | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | East Tawas | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | East Tawas | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | East Tawas | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | East Tawas | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | East Tawas | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tawas City | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Clark Bayshore | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Anderson Bayview | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Lake Huron Beach | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Alabaster Junction | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Huron Oaks | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hyde Park | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Oak Wood Shores | 5.8 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.
| Wikipedia article on East Tawas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3308092 | 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 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.




