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Bridgeport, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bridgeport Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48722. The Survey maps it on the Bridgeport quadrangle.

Bridgeport within Saginaw County

On record in Bridgeport

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

8 surveys from 16 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

60 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Bridgeport between 2012 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 14 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 use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRIDGEPORT FD 875 - 2019
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPAULDING TOWNSHIP FD 0000064 - 2019
15 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBUENA VISTA FD 1582 - 2018
1 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAGINAW FD 2855 - 2019
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAGINAW FD 2804 - 2019
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPAULDING TOWNSHIP FD 0000053 - 2019
10 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBUENA VISTA FD 1407 - 2019
8 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAGINAW FD 2576 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bridgeport: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Day's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Stand.Mining Co.Clay Shale PitClayProspect

Every working recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgeport in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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
May 2019FloodBridgeport$300,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBridgeport$300,000no account filed
May 2005LightningBridgeport$15,000A lightning strike sparked a basement fire at a home on McGrandy near Airport. The fire was contained to a single room in the basement.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindBridgeport$15,000A large tree fell onto a garage.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBridgeport$8,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBridgeport$8,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBridgeport$5,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Large tree fell onto house collpasing a portion of the roof.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Trees were reported blown down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Law enforcement reported a tree down in Bridgeport.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-Two utility poles were blown down.
June 2011HailBridgeport-no account filed
April 2008HailBridgeport-no account filed
June 2007HailBridgeport-no account filed
March 2006HailBridgeport-no account filed
October 2001HailBridgeport-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBridgeport-no account filed
April 1994HailBridgeport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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
Cassbridge (historical)2.9 miles16
Buena Vista4.3 miles16
Fosters4.6 miles16
Saginaw5.5 miles16
Frankentrost5.8 miles16
Carrollton7.3 miles16
Winter's Motor Court7.5 miles16
Crow Island7.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621968. 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.