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Fostoria, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Watertown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48435. The Survey maps it on the Mayville quadrangle. 664 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Fostoria within Tuscola County

Population over time

2 figures

Fostoria fell from 694 to 664 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
2010694
2020664-30 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fostoria between 2006 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000211 - 2018
23 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTER LAKE FIRE & RESCUE 0000017 - 2019
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000031 - 2018
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000080 - 2020
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 18F0507 - 2018
24 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000028 - 2019
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOTTER LAKE FIRE & RESCUE 0000010 - 2018
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMAYVILLE FD 0000027 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscola County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fostoria: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. 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
Wilkinson ChemicalMagnesiteProducer
Arnold Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Baxter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sargent Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tuscola County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vassar Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscola 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
Mayville5.9 miles9
Silverwood8.2 miles9
Juniata8.2 miles10
Millington8.6 miles10
East Dayton11.8 miles9
Vassar13.9 miles10
Wahjamega14.4 miles11
Daytona Branch14.8 miles9

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 FostoriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16301783The 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 626321. 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.