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Foster City, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Breen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49834. It stands on Quarry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Foster City quadrangle. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Foster City within Dickinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Foster City between 1994 and 2018, burning about 17 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 June 2004Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 May 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.9 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLUCAS ROAD
20 May 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORWAY VFD 201823 - 2018
10 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKAYAK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Foster City: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Caspian Const Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Felch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Metronite Co.Marble QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Calumet MineIronPast Producer1849, 1882, 1913
Felch PropertiesIronProspect1851
Felch PropertiesIronOccurrence
Hancock MineIronProspect

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foster City in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2013Flash FloodFoster City$10,000Nearly four inches of rain caused minor flash flooding in Foster City on the evening of the 25th. Cunard Road in Foster City was washed out.
July 2023HailFoster City-Roads in Foster City were littered with shredded leaves due to hail. The spotter in the vehicle had to pull over and stop due to torrential rainfall. Hail size was estimated as the spotter did not get out of the vehicle to measure it. Torrential rain and hail began around 940 pm CDT and lasted 10 to 15 minutes.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindFoster City-Trees as large as 14 inches in diameter were blown down.
May 2002HailFoster City-Three-quarter inch hail was reported.
May 2002HailFoster City-Three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindFoster City-Trees and branches were blown down.
June 1999HailFoster City-1 1/4 inch hail
March 1998Thunderstorm WindFoster City-12 inch diameter tree was uprooted near Foster City.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindFoster City-Trees down.
July 1995HailFoster City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Spruce2.4 miles9
Hardwood2.8 miles9
Hylas3.4 miles9
Felch4.9 miles9
Felch Mountain5.3 miles11
Theodore5.6 miles11
Metropolitan8.2 miles10
Alfred10.2 miles10

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 Q136352983The 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 626308. 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.

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.