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Horton Bay, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49712. It stands on Horton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bay Shore quadrangle. 485 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Horton Bay within Charlevoix County

On record in Horton Bay

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

Population over time

2 figures

Horton Bay fell from 512 to 485 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
2010512
2020485-27 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Horton Bay between 1992 and 2019, burning about 20 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
13 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBOYNE CITY FD 0077446 - 2018
5 May 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHARLEVOIX 03
5 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix 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 Horton Bay: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
D'Oge Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unnamed Shale ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Charlevoix County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horton Bay in 1 storm report in 2013: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindHorton Bay$75,000A large and historic barn was severely damaged. Multiple trees were downed, one onto a home.

Every storm recorded in Charlevoix 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
Zenith Heights2.7 miles12
Wildwood4.3 miles12
Advance4.4 miles13
Bay Shore5.2 miles12
Boyne City5.8 miles13
Ironton6.0 miles13
Burgess6.4 miles13
Walloon Lake7.8 miles14

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 Horton BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22074941The 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 1618908. 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.