# Alston

Alston is a populated place in [Laird Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7cd3-7480-b4c3-eb4e409a676f), [Houghton County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5837-77b7-8da4-931131405a4c), [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa), in the [Sturgeon River (HUC10 0402010402)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1c44-7573-9554-e751ecdc9979) watershed.

IRI: <https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f580-726c-b75d-3cc16f690cb3>

Within: [Michigan](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-57ff-7219-9e2f-cdc1b39bd0fa) › [Houghton County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5837-77b7-8da4-931131405a4c) › [Laird Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7cd3-7480-b4c3-eb4e409a676f)

Type: [geo:Feature](http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#Feature), [schema:Place](https://schema.org/Place)

Location: 46.76827, -88.75319 (box -88.75319, 46.76827, -88.75319, 46.76827; west, south, east, north)

- `adms:identifier`: [gnis 1619016](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f581-7106-af5e-b524e54cdf9b)
- `dcterms:type`: [populated place](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/vocab/geo/gnisPopulatedPlace)
- `geo:hasDefaultGeometry`: [point of Alston](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-fb4e-73e1-a88f-0a26aa099e6b)
- `geo:hasGeometry`: [point of Alston](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-fb4e-73e1-a88f-0a26aa099e6b)
- **in watershed** (`bcgeo:inWatershed`): [Sturgeon River (HUC10 0402010402)](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1c44-7573-9554-e751ecdc9979)
- `prov:wasDerivedFrom`:
  - [evidence from https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames\_MI\_Text.zip](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f580-726c-b75d-3cc06d75bc41)
  - [evidence from https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de92-1591-74a3-8630-0926a31d56e5)
- `schema:containedInPlace`:
  - [Houghton County](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-5837-77b7-8da4-931131405a4c)
  - [Laird Township](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0ca47-7cd3-7480-b4c3-eb4e409a676f)
- `skos:prefLabel`: Alston

## Elsewhere

- [USGS GNIS 1619016](https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/1619016) (gnis)
- [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=46.76827&mlon=-88.75319#map=14/46.76827/-88.75319) (46.76827, -88.75319)
- [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=46.76827,-88.75319)
- [Source](https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames_MI_Text.zip) (prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com)
- [Source](https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer) (hydro.nationalmap.gov)

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Also as: [Turtle](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f580-726c-b75d-3cc16f690cb3.ttl), [JSON-LD](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f580-726c-b75d-3cc16f690cb3.jsonld), [N-Triples](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f580-726c-b75d-3cc16f690cb3.nt), [HTML](https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f580-726c-b75d-3cc16f690cb3)
Cite as: Alston. bc-ontology, release 0.1.0-rc15, 2026-09-28. https://ontology.bommaritollc.com/id/01a0de50-f580-726c-b75d-3cc16f690cb3
Release 0.1.0-rc15, graph hash 90961d0d6b29954f5f0257ebc2d1d12c6ce580def6a2f45cbf04d248aa879e72.