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Tawas City, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Tawas City City. It lies in ZIP code area 48763. It stands on Dead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tawas City quadrangle. 1,834 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

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Tawas City within Iosco County

Population over time

2 figures

Tawas City grew from 1,827 to 1,834 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
20101,827
20201,834+7 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Tawas City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. None 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
11 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBISCHOFF
5 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMEADOWS
31 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestINEZ
24 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestSPARTON
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestREDBIRD
2 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestMARGO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tawas City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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

Every working recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tawas City in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 2 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 2007LightningTawas City2 hurtTwo canoers, one male and one female, were struck by lightning while taking shelter under a tree during a thunderstorm. The woman was knocked unconscious, and both suffered significant burns. They were transported to a burn center in Flint to recover.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTawas City$20,000Numerous trees and power lines downed. Camper trailer flipped over.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTawas City$12,000Numerous trees and power lines downed in and west of Tawas City.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindTawas City$6,000Several trees were uprooted along River Street in Tawas City.
April 2011LightningTawas City$5,000Lightning struck a pine tree, which toppled onto a home, and catching the home on fire.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindTawas City$3,000Some tree limbs and numerous power lines were downed.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindTawas City$2,000County dispatch reports trees down in Tawas.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindTawas City$1,000County dispatch reported powerlines down in Tawas. Time estimated from radar.
April 2006HailTawas City-Thunderstorms affected Central Lower Michigan, just ahead of a cold front. Some of the storms produced small hail, and one produced hail as large as pennies near the intersection of M-65 and M-55 in Iosco County.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindTawas City-Large tree limbs were downed.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindTawas City-Trees and power lines down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindTawas City-Trees down.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindTawas City-A spotter reported several trees uprooted due to thunderstorm winds.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindTawas City-The Coast guard reported trees uprooted in Baldwin township on Baldwin resort road.
June 2008HailTawas City-no account filed
June 2008HailTawas City-no account filed
July 2008HailTawas City-no account filed
August 2003HailTawas City-no account filed
August 2001HailTawas City-no account filed
May 2000HailTawas City-no account filed
August 2000HailTawas City-no account filed
May 1998HailTawas City-no account filed
April 1993HailTawas City-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
East Tawas1.5 miles13
Clark Bayshore2.1 miles11
Anderson Bayview2.8 miles11
Lake Huron Beach3.1 miles11
Alabaster Junction3.1 miles11
Huron Oaks3.5 miles11
Hyde Park4.1 miles11
Oak Wood Shores4.5 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 Tawas CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q731226The 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 1614605. 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.