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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.

Linwood within Bay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

9,210 words on this township

History 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.

Read the whole chapter on Fraser Township.

Fires near this place

12 since 2010

Regional 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/undetermined5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
25 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 334 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 321 - 2019
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGARFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 0190077 - 2019
28 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000304 - 2018
5 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPINCONNING-FRASER FD 0000162 - 2019
31 May 2010Natural5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBAY 04
26 May 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP FD 207 - 2019
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR TOWNSHIP FD 713 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLinwood1 killed, $100,000no account filed
July 2014HailLinwood$1,000,000no account filed
November 2001Thunderstorm WindLinwood$5,000Law 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 2025Thunderstorm WindLinwood-Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLinwood-Report of tree down on the road.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindLinwood-A few large trees reported down in the Linwood area.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLinwood-Multiple reports of trees and wires down.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindLinwood-A tree was reported down near the intersection of Parish and Mackinaw Roads.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLinwood-A large tree was reported blown down on M-13.
July 2014HailLinwood-no account filed
July 2014HailLinwood-no account filed
July 2014HailLinwood-no account filed
July 2014HailLinwood-no account filed
May 2013HailLinwood-no account filed
June 2002HailLinwood-no account filed
June 2000HailLinwood-no account filed
April 1996HailLinwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bay 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
Linwood Beach1.4 miles14
Brissette Beach2.5 miles14
Killarney Beach3.9 miles14
Little Killarney Beach4.5 miles14
Tobico Beach5.1 miles14
Meyers Beach5.1 miles9
Three Churches Corner5.5 miles11
Almeda Beach5.8 miles9

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 LinwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6555135The 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.