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Ossawinamakee Beach, Michigan

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hiawatha Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49854. The Survey maps it on the Manistique West quadrangle.

Ossawinamakee Beach within Schoolcraft County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Ossawinamakee Beach between 1994 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Smoking1
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
8 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2012Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHOTGUN FIRE
21 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201916 - 2019
2 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 1994Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoolcraft 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 Ossawinamakee Beach: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Dolomite. 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
White Marble Lime Co.QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Fred Fitzgerald Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stoney Cut No. 19 QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Schoolcraft County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ossawinamakee Beach in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindOssawinamakee Beach$3,000Delayed report from Facebook of trees and branches down near Indian Lake. Time was estimated from radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOssawinamakee Beach$1,000There was a delayed report of three fruit trees of approximately six inches in diameter uprooted.
July 2016HailOssawinamakee Beach-There was a public report of penny-sized hail four miles northwest of Manistique.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOssawinamakee Beach-A six-inch diameter tree limb was reported down on Birch Street near Indian Lake, MI. Storms also dumped three to four inches of rain between Manistique and Gulliver.

Every storm recorded in Schoolcraft 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
Copenhagen Beach1.0 miles8
Harrison Beach1.3 miles8
Evergreen Shores1.9 miles8
Sunset Beach2.7 miles8
Minor Beach3.4 miles8
Manistique3.8 miles6
Michiwaukee Shores4.6 miles8
Richardsons Mill5.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122552679The 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 1621123. 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.