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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.

Detroit Beach within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

Detroit 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,087
20201,957-130 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

13 since 2013

Regional 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/undetermined8
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002859 - 2019
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1324 - 2019
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 191935 - 2019
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002079 - 2019
19 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19926 - 2019
17 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.5 acresDetroit River International Wildlife RefugePLUM CREEK
6 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0000992 - 2019
25 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19345 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Monroe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Turtle Lake PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Detroit Beach$10,000,000A 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 2009Thunderstorm WindDetroit Beach$70,000Trees and power lines were reported down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDetroit Beach-Large tree limbs down.
June 2023Tornado (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 2021Thunderstorm WindDetroit Beach-Numerous large tree limbs observed down in the Detroit Beach neighborhood.
June 2008HailDetroit Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Woodland Beach0.9 miles18
Stony Creek2.3 miles18
Golfcrest2.4 miles18
Stony Point3.4 miles18
Monroe3.9 miles17
Pointe aux Peaux4.0 miles18
Oldport4.9 miles18
Newport5.0 miles16

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2194885The 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.