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.
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
Colony Tower Complexlisted 1994
Colony Tower Complex (Boundary Increase)listed 1995
Population over time
3 figuresPearl 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3,224 | |
| 2010 | 2,829 | -395 (-12%) |
| 2020 | 4,698 | +1,869 (+66%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1914 USGS Algonac quadrangle1:62500
- 1939 USGS Marine City quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Marine City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Marine City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Lake St. Clair North quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 468 - 2018 |
| 3 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRA TOWNSHIP FD 195 - 2020 |
| 11 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 399 - 2019 |
| 7 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRA TOWNSHIP FD 214 - 2019 |
| 6 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 277 - 2019 |
| 25 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 347 - 2019 |
| 11 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLAY TOWNSHIP MAINLAND FD 296 - 2019 |
| 24 March 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IRA TOWNSHIP FD 169 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pearl Beach | $20,000 | Multiple trees and powerlines reported down. One tree fell onto a house, while another tree landed on a truck. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pearl Beach | - | Wind damaged a garage door and exterior wall of a home. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pearl 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pearl Beach | - | Large tree limbs reported down. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Pearl Beach | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe aux Tremble | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Perch Point | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Pointe aux Chenes | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Grande Pointe | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Copeland Corner | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Algonac | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Maple Leaf | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Sans Souci | 3.7 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 Pearl Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3200476 | 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 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.







