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Anchor Bay Gardens, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Chesterfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48047. It stands on Auvase Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle.

Anchor Bay Gardens within Macomb County

On record in Anchor Bay Gardens

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

30 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Anchor Bay Gardens between 2018 and 2019, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural4

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
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BALTIMORE FD 0000743 - 2019
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0008251 - 2019
7 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003200 - 2018
6 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003188 - 2018
29 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0008764 - 2018
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNEW BALTIMORE FD 0000831 - 2019
16 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003300 - 2019
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARRISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001881 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macomb County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anchor Bay Gardens in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014Thunderstorm WindAnchor Bay Gardens$2,000A power pole was reported down.
June 2025Flash FloodAnchor Bay Gardens-Curb to curb flooding on Hayes Rd between 19 Mile and Utica Rd, and Utica Rd between Hayes Rd and Metro Pkwy. Curb to curb flooding on residential streets near 21 Mile and Garfield Rd. Water rescue reported at Dunham Rd and Heydenreich Rd. The current from the water flowing over the road was too strong for those who got stuck to safely exit their vehicle. Curb to curb flooding at North Ave and Elizabeth Rd in Mt. Clemens. Social media photo of vehicles in wheel well deep water on Garfield Rd near 19 Mile Rd. |Gratiot Rd impassable at 23 Mile Rd due to flooding. |||Water rescue reported at Dunham Rd and Heydenreich Rd.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAnchor Bay Gardens-Several trees and large tree limbs blown down.

Every storm recorded in Macomb 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
Anchor Bay Shores0.5 miles17
Anchor Bay Harbor1.1 miles17
Sebille Manor1.3 miles17
Point Lakeview2.0 miles17
Chesterfield2.1 miles17
Lottivue2.9 miles17
Milton3.2 miles17
Chesterfield Shores3.3 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122595268The 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 620078. 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.

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.