Estral Beach, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Berlin Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48166. It stands on Langton Drain. The Survey maps it on the Estral Beach quadrangle. 403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEstral Beach fell from 418 to 403 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 | 418 | |
| 2020 | 403 | -15 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1942 USGS Estral Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Estral Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Estral Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Estral Beach between 2010 and 2020, burning about 345 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 191935 - 2019 |
| 16 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2020351 - |
| 27 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 300 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019258 - |
| 26 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ESTRAL BEACH VFD 0201911 - 2019 |
| 31 March 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 42 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WAYNE 01 |
| 29 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE 01 |
| 26 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019744 - |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Estral Beach: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ritter's Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estral Beach in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2008: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Estral Beach | $50,000 | A very thin tornado briefly touched down just west of Chinavere Road and just north of Dixie Highway in Berlin Township at 1434 EST on Tuesday, June 27th. The tornado tracked southeast and lifted as it moved across Dixie Highway. The Tornado was rated an F0 anticyclonic tornado with winds up to 65 MPH. The tornado was on the ground for less than a minute but long enough to blow over a loaded tractor-trailer rig weighing 45,000 pounds parked next to a home. Only minor structural damage occurred to the home. The tornado created crop-circle like patterns in a neighboring wheat field. No injuries or deaths were reported. Property damages included the loss of the truck, confirmed at $50K. The same storm cell produced a waterspout over Lake Erie just moments later. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Estral Beach | $1,000 | Large tree limbs reported down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oldport | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Pointe aux Peaux | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Stony Point | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Newport | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Woodland Beach | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Stony Creek | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| South Rockwood | 5.7 miles | 16 | |
| Detroit Beach | 6.1 miles | 18 |
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 Estral Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1982095 | 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 625652. 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.





