Linwood, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fraser Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48634. It stands on Railroad Drain. The Survey maps it on the Kawkawlin quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1916 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Kawkawlin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Bay City quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
9,210 words on this townshipHistory of Bay County Michigan, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Fraser Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
James Tryon, an early settler of Bay County was born in Oneida County, N. Y., in March, 1851. When six years old he went to Ohio. When he was sixteen years old he started in life for himself, and went to Indiana, and was there four years. In 1878 went to Kawkawlin, and taught school one year; then went to Pinconning as a clerk and was there one year. On April 22d he went to the village of Linwood to run a general store for C. H. Rhodes. In 1882, October 18tli, he married Miss Agnes Schmidt, of Kawkawlin.
Passage source: History of Bay County Michigan, published 1883.
P. L. Sherman was born in New Bedford, Mass., in 1844. He went to sea when young and followed it till 1879, in which year he went to Bay City and started business as a lumberman in company with Nathaniel Howland. Their mill is located in Linwood, on the M. C. R. R., in the township of Fraser. In 1871 he married Miss Howland, of Dartmouth, Mass. They have one child. Mr. Sherman is general manager of the company's business. Their saw mill is new, having been built in 1882, and has a capacity of 19,000 feet per day. Their stave mill has a capacity of twenty cords of bolts per day.
Passage source: History of Bay County Michigan, published 1883.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
12 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Linwood between 2010 and 2020, burning about 19 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 334 - 2019 |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 321 - 2019 |
| 28 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GARFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0190077 - 2019 |
| 28 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000304 - 2018 |
| 5 May 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000162 - 2019 |
| 31 May 2010 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BAY 04 |
| 26 May 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 207 - 2019 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BANGOR TOWNSHIP FD 713 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linwood in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linwood | 1 killed, $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Linwood | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| November 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linwood | $5,000 | Law enforcement reported that part of a barn roof with wires on it was blown onto Anderson Road between Mackinaw and Fraser Roads. They also reported that a couple of trees had been blown down in the same area. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linwood | - | Numerous trees and power lines reported down. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linwood | - | Report of tree down on the road. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linwood | - | A few large trees reported down in the Linwood area. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linwood | - | Multiple reports of trees and wires down. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linwood | - | A tree was reported down near the intersection of Parish and Mackinaw Roads. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Linwood | - | A large tree was reported blown down on M-13. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Linwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Linwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Linwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Linwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Linwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Linwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Linwood | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Linwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linwood Beach | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Brissette Beach | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Killarney Beach | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Little Killarney Beach | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Tobico Beach | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Meyers Beach | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Three Churches Corner | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Almeda Beach | 5.8 miles | 9 |
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 Linwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6555135 | 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 630524. 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.






