Detroit Beach, Michigan
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Frenchtown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48162. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stony Point quadrangle. 1,957 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDetroit Beach fell from 2,087 to 1,957 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 | 2,087 | |
| 2020 | 1,957 | -130 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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 Monroe quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Stony Point quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Stony Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Stony Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Stony Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Detroit Beach between 2013 and 2020, burning about 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002859 - 2019 |
| 11 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1324 - 2019 |
| 11 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 191935 - 2019 |
| 11 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002079 - 2019 |
| 19 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19926 - 2019 |
| 17 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.5 acres | Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge | PLUM CREEK |
| 6 April 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0000992 - 2019 |
| 25 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19345 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Detroit Beach: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Turtle Lake Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Detroit Beach in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Detroit Beach | $10,000,000 | A tornado touched down at 233 am just southwest of Woodland Beach. The tornado tracked 5 miles to the northeast, reaching Estral Beach at 239 am before moving into Lake Erie. The path width was 500 yards with estimated maximum winds of 90 mph, which is classified at an EF1. This tornado impacted the Fermi nuclear power facility, peeling off a section of the roof and some siding on storage buildings. Over 125 homes and 23 vehicles were damaged, with many trees downed. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Detroit Beach | $70,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Detroit Beach | - | Large tree limbs down. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Detroit Beach | - | Tornado touched down near Dixie Highway and the north part of the Detroit Beach neighborhood. Damage in this area was mainly large limbs down with winds estimated to 70 mph. Tornado tracked east-northeast through Woodland Beach where greatest damaged occurred with large limbs down and snapped hardwood trees. Estimated winds were to 90 mph with a 400 yd width in this area. Track continued into Baycrest Beach where limbs and a couple trees were down along the lakeshore with estimated winds up to 80 mph. Tornado crossed Pointe Aux Peaux Rd east-southeast of Dixie Highway before exiting over Lake Erie north of Fermi Power Plant. Damage in this portion of the track was EF0 with only limbs down. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Detroit Beach | - | Numerous large tree limbs observed down in the Detroit Beach neighborhood. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Detroit Beach | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland Beach | 0.9 miles | 18 | |
| Stony Creek | 2.3 miles | 18 | |
| Golfcrest | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| Stony Point | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Monroe | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Pointe aux Peaux | 4.0 miles | 18 | |
| Oldport | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Newport | 5.0 miles | 16 |
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 Detroit Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2194885 | 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 624581. 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.








