White Rock, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48763. It stands on Manary Creek. The Survey maps it on the Floyd Lake quadrangle.

White Rock within Iosco County

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.

1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1989 USGS Floyd Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of White Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	21
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WHITE ROCK
19 September 1999	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	GYPSUM
4 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	26 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	SAND LAKE
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAWAS CITY FD 0000075 - 2019
16 August 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	GONE OUT WEST
1 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	LOOK
5 July 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	NATIONAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of White Rock: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Tawas City Eastern Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Tawas City Western Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
National City Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer	1925
National Pit & Mill	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Natl Gypsum Co Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
McIvor	1.2 miles	11
Hemlock	2.1 miles	14
Meadow	2.3 miles	14
National City	2.4 miles	11
Sand Lake	4.6 miles	14
Turtle	5.3 miles	11
Alabaster Junction	6.4 miles	11
Whittemore	6.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617940. 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.