Bath, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Bath Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48808. The Survey maps it on the Bath quadrangle. 2,841 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 856 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBath grew from 2,083 to 2,841 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,083 | |
| 2020 | 2,841 | +758 (+36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1928 USGS Laingsburg quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1944 USGS Laingsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Bath quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Bath between 2010 and 2020, burning about 30 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 | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903926 - 2019 |
| 21 August 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLARK RD DOWN WIRE |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1903431 - 2019 |
| 2 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EAST LANSING FD 0002610 - 2018 |
| 8 June 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SHIAWASSEE 01 |
| 23 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BATH TOWNSHIP FD 0000083 - 2019 |
| 23 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | EAST LANSING FD 0002154 - 2018 |
| 15 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP FD 1902077 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bath: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boichot Howe Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bath in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Bath | $200,000 | The majority of damage was concentrated in the last 1.5 miles of the path near Cutler Road to the intersection of Hollister and Round Lake Roads. Damage to trees and structures was common along the tornado path. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | $40,000 | Three barns were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts near the intersection of Cutler and Hollister roads. Several large tres were also blown down three miles northeast of Bath along Cutler road between Upton and Hollister roads. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | $10,000 | Numerous trees were blown down at Round Lake road and Looking Glass river. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | $2,500 | Clinton County Central Dispatch reported a large tree downed in Bath Township. The tree brought down power lines with it. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | - | Trees damaged. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Bath | - | Golf ball-size hail reported near the town of Bath. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gunnisonville | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Clinton Village | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Valley Farms | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| East DeWitt | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| DeWitt | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Westchester Heights | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Price | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| South Riley | 11.6 miles | 11 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Bath | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q507197 | 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 620744. 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.
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.






