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Oscoda, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Oscoda Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48750. It stands on Van Etten Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oscoda quadrangle. 916 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 590 feet above sea level.

Oscoda within Iosco County

On record in Oscoda

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

3 figures

Oscoda fell from 922 to 916 between 2000 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
2000922
2010903-19 (-2%)
2020916+13 (+1%)

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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Oscoda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning23
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIOSCO #2 PERSEPHONE
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremony12 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestBUSCH
16 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSOCLISTOR
8 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIOSCO 08 - CIGARETTE FIRE
4 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWHIRLPOOL
23 August 2013Recreation and ceremony2.7 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestFOOTE SITE
18 August 2004Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestREMPERT 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oscoda in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2003LightningOscoda4 hurt, $10,000Lightning struck a large business sign mounted on a tall pole. The heavy plastic facing of the sign shattered and fell onto vehicles below. One car with four occupants had its windows shattered and tires blown out by the impact. The occupants were treated at the scene by an EMS crew for cuts and bruises. Other vehicles in the vicinity were damaged, but not as severely.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOscoda$25,000Trees and utility lines were downed. A business sign was blown down, damaging nearby parked cars.
July 2003Flash FloodOscoda$3,000Widespread street flooding occurred, with over six inches of water covering streets in the business district. Some basements also flooded.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOscoda$2,000Trees downed across Cedar Road.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOscoda$2,000A line of thunderstorms organized just before it moved offshore onto Lake Huron. Several trees were downed near Cedar Lake.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindOscoda-A few trees down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindOscoda-Power lines down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOscoda-Spotters reported two-foot-diameter trees down, in addition to power lines. Some vehicles were damaged by the falling trees.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindOscoda-The Michigan State Police reported three 18 inch diameter trees downed by strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2014HailOscoda-no account filed
June 2013HailOscoda-no account filed
June 2008HailOscoda-no account filed
June 2004HailOscoda-no account filed
June 2004HailOscoda-no account filed
August 2004HailOscoda-no account filed
August 2003HailOscoda-no account filed
August 2000HailOscoda-no account filed
July 1997HailOscoda-no account filed
July 1996HailOscoda-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
Au Sable0.7 miles13
Lincoln Junction5.1 miles13
Foote Site Village6.1 miles13
Wilber8.6 miles13
East Tawas12.9 miles13
Tawas City14.3 miles14
Sid Town14.8 miles14
Clark Bayshore16.3 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 OscodaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q730342The 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 634132. 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.