Alabaster Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Alabaster Historic District is a 400-acre mining complex in Iosco County, Michigan, centered on an open pit gypsum mine. It is bounded by on the east by Lake Huron, on the north by Gypsum Road, on the south by Keystone Road, and on the west by Rempert Road, south of Tawas City, the county seat.”
Wikipedia article Alabaster Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Iosco County · listed in 1977 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bounded by Lake Huron, Gypsum, Keystone, and Rempert Rds., Alabaster, 48763
When was it listed? December 1977
Category. district
Township. Alabaster township
National Register reference number. 77000715 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Alabaster Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 75 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
4 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	26 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	TAWAS CITY FD 0000036 - 2019
21 May 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	WELDER'S
2 May 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	ORACLE
18 May 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	TOWNLINE
4 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Huron-Manistee National Forest	ALABASTER
19 April 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Huron-Manistee National Forest	CHOO-CHOO

Every fire recorded in Iosco County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alabaster Historic District: 4 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 Mine and Mill	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Alabaster Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer	1865, 2001
Glancy Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Iosco Co Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Iosco County

Storms near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alabaster, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2020	Flood	Alabaster	$1,200,000	Widespread areal flooding developed in central and southern Iosco County on the 18th. Many creeks and rivers rose out of their banks, including the Au Gres River system and Silver Creek and its tributaries. Many roads across the county were closed, including Meadow Road in Tawas City. Railroad tracks were also washed out in Tawas City. Townline Road in Tawas Township was washed out by Dead Creek. Flooding along the Lake Huron coastline was worsened by lakeshore flooding thanks to onshore winds.

Every storm recorded in Iosco County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Tawas Point Light Station	7.5 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000715 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iosco County	All 3 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.