Bay City, Michigan

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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 12 of 16 shown

• Bay City Bascule Bridge
• Bay City Downtown Historic Districtlisted 1985
• Bay City Masonic Templelisted 2016
• Bay County Buildinglisted 1982
• Center Avenue Neighborhood Residential Districtlisted 1982
• City Halllisted 1975
• James Clements Airport Administration Buildinglisted 1982
• Elm Lawn Cemeterylisted 2006
• Mercy Hospital and Elizabeth McDowell Bialy Memorial Houselisted 1980
• Midland Street Commercial Districtlisted 1982
• Odd Fellows Valley Lodge No. 189 Buildinglisted 2010
• Pere Marquette Railroad Depot, Bay City Stationlisted 1982

Every listing in Bay County

Bay City grew from 1,583 to 32,661 between 1860 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.

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.

• 1916 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:62500
• 1919 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1943 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Bay City between 2018 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 12 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• West Bay City
• Aplin Beach
• Bangor (historical)
• Donahue Beach
• Kawkawlin
• Lagoon Beach

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bay City: 3 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Bay County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay City in 72 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 53 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 3 lightning, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Bay County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620777. 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.