BlockPort Austin, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Port Austin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48467. It stands on Bird Creek. The Survey maps it on the Port Austin East quadrangle. 622 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.
On record in Port Austin
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 4 records
Charles G. Learned Houselisted 1984
Port Austin Reef Lightlisted 2011
Smith-Culhane Houselisted 2001
Winsor and Snover Bank Buildinglisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresPort Austin fell from 664 to 622 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 | 664 | |
| 2020 | 622 | -42 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Port Austin East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Pointe Aux Barques quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Port Austin between 2001 and 2020, burning about 10 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 | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2001 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WILBUR |
| 5 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PORT AUSTIN FD 0000018 - 2018 |
| 7 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.7 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HURON 01 |
| 21 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.3 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | JOSE LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Port Austin: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grind Stone City Sandstone Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Austin in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Port Austin | $100,000 | A tornado touched down near the intersection of N Hellman and Grindstone Rd, 1 mile east of Port Austin. Shortly after the tornado touched down, an outbuilding was destroyed, marking its peak intensity of 80 mph winds. As the tornado tracked east, a field of soybean crops was damaged. Numerous trees were then damaged as the tornado approached Sullivan Rd, in which the damage swath was approximately 50 yards in width. The tornado continued to track eastward, causing damage to a fence line before lifting just prior to reaching Tomlinson Rd. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Austin | $50,000 | Local media reported downed electrical poles and trees. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Austin | $50,000 | Storm spotters reported that a large tree was uprooted and blown onto a house in thunderstorms winds. The house sustained extensive damage. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Austin | $15,000 | A large tree was blown down onto a vehicle. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Austin | - | Multiple power lines reported down. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Austin | - | A trained spotter measured a 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Austin | - | Central dispatch reported multiple trees blown down across M-25 in and around Port Austin. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Austin | - | The emergency manager reported numerous trees and wires down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Austin | - | A trained spotter reported large tree limbs down. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Austin | - | Power lines were blown down, leaving 2400 people without power. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Port Austin | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Port Austin | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Port Austin | - | 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 Barques | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| Port Crescent | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Grind Stone City | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Kinde | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Glencoe | 8.1 miles | 9 | |
| Huron City | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Pinnebog | 9.6 miles | 8 | |
| Filion | 10.4 miles | 8 |
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 Port Austin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2280639 | 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 635259. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.