Northport, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Leelanau Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49670. It stands on Northport Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northport quadrangle. 496 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.
On record in Northport
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
Grand Traverse Light Stationlisted 1984
Morgan-Copp-Mervau Buildinglisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresNorthport fell from 526 to 496 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 | 526 | |
| 2020 | 496 | -30 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Northport quadrangle1:25000
- 1984 USGS Charlevoix quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Northport between 2009 and 2018, burning about 8 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2018205 - 2018 |
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2018096 - 2018 |
| 11 May 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEELANAU 01 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northport in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport- | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were downed along the west shore of the county between Northport and Glen Haven. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | $6,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | $4,000 | Multiple trees were downed at M-22 and Lee Mann Road. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | $2,000 | One large tree was downed at Carlson Road and M-22. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | - | A single orchard had about a hundred cherry trees damaged or destroyed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | - | Trees were downed. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | - | Trees down. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Northport | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Northport | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Northport | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahgosatown | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Omena | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Peshawbestown | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Leland | 10.6 miles | 10 | |
| Suttons Bay | 10.8 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Leelanau | 11.6 miles | 13 | |
| Fountain Point | 12.1 miles | 13 | |
| Keswick | 14.1 miles | 13 |
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 Northport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1714671 | 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 633697. 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.




