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.
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.
Kolping Park and Chapellisted 1996 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Mt Clemens quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Mt Clemens quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1936 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:31680
- 1952 USGS Mt Clemens quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Lake St. Clair North quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 2018Regional 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 use | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEW BALTIMORE FD 0000743 - 2019 |
| 7 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLINTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0008251 - 2019 |
| 7 August 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003200 - 2018 |
| 6 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003188 - 2018 |
| 29 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLINTON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0008764 - 2018 |
| 25 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | NEW BALTIMORE FD 0000831 - 2019 |
| 16 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MACOMB TOWNSHIP FD 0003300 - 2019 |
| 11 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HARRISON TOWNSHIP FD 0001881 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anchor Bay Gardens | $2,000 | A power pole was reported down. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Anchor 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Anchor Bay Gardens | - | Several trees and large tree limbs blown down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchor Bay Shores | 0.5 miles | 17 | |
| Anchor Bay Harbor | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Sebille Manor | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Point Lakeview | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Chesterfield | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Lottivue | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Milton | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Chesterfield Shores | 3.3 miles | 17 |
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 Q122595268 | The 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.









