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Pearl Beach, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48001. It stands on Swartout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marine City quadrangle. 4,698 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Pearl Beach within St. Clair County

On record in Pearl Beach

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

3 figures

Pearl Beach grew from 3,224 to 4,698 between 2000 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
20003,224
20102,829-395 (-12%)
20204,698+1,869 (+66%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Pearl Beach between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
2 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 468 - 2018
3 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 195 - 2020
11 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 399 - 2019
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 214 - 2019
6 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 277 - 2019
25 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 347 - 2019
11 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 296 - 2019
24 March 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIRA TOWNSHIP FD 169 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pearl Beach in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPearl Beach$20,000Multiple trees and powerlines reported down. One tree fell onto a house, while another tree landed on a truck.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPearl Beach-Wind damaged a garage door and exterior wall of a home.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPearl Beach-A stretch of sporadic wind damage occurred along Pointe Tremble Rd between Maynard Drive and Pointe Tremble Lane. Reports include siding blown off a marine services building, a garage door blown in, siding blown off of a couple homes, a large tree limb down on powerlines, and a pontoon boat parked on land was flipped over.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPearl Beach-Large tree limbs reported down.
May 2010HailPearl Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Pointe aux Tremble1.5 miles13
Perch Point2.9 miles13
Pointe aux Chenes3.3 miles13
Grande Pointe3.4 miles13
Copeland Corner3.4 miles13
Algonac3.6 miles13
Maple Leaf3.7 miles13
Sans Souci3.7 miles13

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 Pearl BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3200476The 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 1624814. 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.