Whitestone Point, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Whitney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48703. It stands on Dime Drain. The Survey maps it on the Point Lookout quadrangle.

Whitestone Point within Arenac 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.

1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Point Lookout quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Whitestone Point between 1996 and 2020, burning about 90 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	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
22 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ARENAC 06
2 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	ORACLE
28 April 2003	Debris and open burning	52 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	ALABASTER SWAMP
26 November 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	AUGRES-SIMS FD 0000063 - 2019
4 January 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Arenac 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 Whitestone Point: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Alabaster Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	1865, 2001
Arenac Co Pit # 1 Re Glancy	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Glancy Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Iosco Co Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Van Dusen Stone Co	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Arenac 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
Wagner Beach	0.4 miles	11
Hammell Beach	1.3 miles	11
Harmon City Heights	1.7 miles	11
Birchwood Shores	2.1 miles	11
Huron Heights	2.2 miles	11
Delano	3.3 miles	11
Pine Wood Park	3.6 miles	11
Glenwood Beach	4.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616372. 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.