BlockBay Port, Michigan
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fairhaven Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48720. The Survey maps it on the Bay Port East quadrangle.
On record in Bay Port
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 1 record
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Bay Port East quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bay Port between 2012 and 2020, burning about 258 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FAIRHAVEN TWP FD 2020011 - 2020 |
| 9 October 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 257 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HURON 01 - HEISTERMAN ISLAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bay Port: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallace Stone Plant | Limestone, General | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Wallace Stone Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Bayport Quarry Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Windsor Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay Port in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bay Port | $20,000 | A grain silo sustained some minor damage from thunderstorm winds. Some windows were also reported to have been blown out of a barn. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bay Port | $5,000 | Numerous trees and tree limbs blown down. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bay Port | $1,000 | Four trees were reported down near Bay Port. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bay Port | - | Trees and power lines reported down, along with dime size hail. One tree fell onto a car. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bay Port | - | Power lines reported down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bay Port | - | Trees reported blown down. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Bay Port | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weale | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Valley Island | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Berne | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Rose Island | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Pigeon | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Kilmanagh | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Caseville | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Linkville | 8.4 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620789. 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.