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Lake Huron Beach, 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. The Survey maps it on the Alabaster quadrangle.

Lake Huron Beach 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.

Fires near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Lake Huron Beach between 1994 and 2019, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
5 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMEADOWS
4 August 2016Recreation and ceremony26 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMARGO
12 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAST TAWAS FD 0000122 - 2018
28 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestATV
23 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestALICE

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 Lake Huron Beach: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tawas City Eastern Clay PitClayPast Producer
Alabaster Mine and MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Alabaster QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1865, 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Anderson Bayview0.3 miles11
Huron Oaks0.4 miles11
Clark Bayshore1.0 miles11
Hyde Park1.1 miles11
Alabaster Junction1.2 miles11
Oak Wood Shores1.5 miles11
Benson Park2.1 miles11
Tawas City3.1 miles14

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 Q122568117The 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 629977. 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.