Grand Marais, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Burt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49839. It stands on Carpenter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grand Marais quadrangle. 234 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.
On record in Grand Marais
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 2 records
Au Sable Light Stationlisted 1978
Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Inner and Outer Lightslisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresGrand Marais fell from 350 to 234 between 2003 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 350 | |
| 2020 | 234 | -116 (-33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sault Sainte Marie quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Grand Marais quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Two Hearted River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Grand Marais between 1995 and 2020, burning about 4 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 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.7 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RIVER FIRE |
| 31 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BURT TOWNSHIP FD 0020197 - 2019 |
| 17 July 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | JR. OFFICER |
| 16 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BURT TOWNSHIP FD 0000006 - 2020 |
| 1 June 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Marais in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 2019 | Lightning | Grand Marais | $20,000 | Lightning from a thunderstorm caused a rooftop fire at the Superior Hotel in Grand Marais on the afternoon of the 30th. Time of the report was estimated via ENTLN and GLD lightning data. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | $5,000 | Numerous trees up to ten inches in diameter uprooted along Old Seney Road 5 to 10 miles south of Grand Marais. |
| June 2017 | Heavy Rain | Grand Marais | $4,000 | The observer in Grand Marais reported several gravel and dirt highways washed out from heavy rain. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | $4,000 | Trees down across roads and power outages. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | A measured wind gust at the Grand Marais Light GLOS observing station. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | A spotter in Grand Marais reported dime-sized hail. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | There was a public report of dime-sized hail along West Bay in Grand Marais. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | A spotter just southeast of Grand Marais reported dime-sized hail. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | There was a public report of quarter-sized hail with some hail stones larger than quarter size. The hail lasted five to ten minutes, and an intense downpour was also observed. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | Mostly quarter-sized hail was observed in Grand Marais. There were a few flat stones approaching the diameter of a golf ball. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | Measured wind gust recorded by the Grand Marais Lighthouse observing station. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | Time of the report was estimated from the radar. The caller did not know the exact location of the report, but it was close to Grand Marais. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | Wind gust measured by the Grand Marais GLOS station. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | Thunderstorm winds broke off several tree limbs in Grand Marais. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | Hail occurred on Highway 77 south of Grand Marais. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | 3/4 inch hail. |
| May 2001 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | 3/4 inch hail. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Grand Marais | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Marais | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Haven | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Sunrise Landing | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Sullivans Landing | 11.3 miles | 9 | |
| Melstrand | 26.9 miles | 11 | |
| Williams Crossing | 28.9 miles | 11 | |
| Myren | 28.9 miles | 11 | |
| Van Meer | 31.0 miles | 11 | |
| Star | 31.1 miles | 12 |
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 Grand Marais | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1803852 | 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 627096. 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.
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.





