BlockPort Crescent, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hume Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48467. It stands on Pinnebog River. The Survey maps it on the Port Austin West quadrangle.
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 West quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tawas City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Port Crescent between 2001 and 2020, burning about 22 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2001 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Huron-Manistee National Forest | WILBUR |
| 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 |
| 13 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PORT AUSTIN FD 0000011 - 2019 |
| 13 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | KINDE AREA FD 0000014 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Crescent in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 6 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Tornado (EF2) | Port Crescent | 6 hurt, $1,900,000 | A tornado touched down 4 miles SW of Port Austin just north of the intersection between Port Crescent Rd and Sand Rd. The tornado began as an EF-0, producing several snapped trees and tree limbs, uprooted trees, and damage to barns and outbuildings. The tornado then tracked northeast and crossed M-53 just south of its intersection with M-25. At this point, the tornado produced EF-2 damage to six houses, with three roofs completely detached, one house with major roof damage, two garages and one barn completely destroyed, and substantial tree damage. Estimated peak winds were 120 mph.|The tornado continued to track northeast toward N Hellems Rd and paralleled Pointe Aux Barques Rd, where numerous pine trees were damaged or destroyed and |some hardwood trees were snapped, consistent with EF-1 damage. The |tornado then tracked across the Eagle Bay public access point and |into Lake Huron. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Crescent | $1,000 | A large pine tree was blown down onto the Port Crescent State Park Headquarters. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Crescent | - | A tree was reported blown down. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Crescent | - | A 2 foot diameter tree was reported down. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Port Crescent | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Austin | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Pinnebog | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Kinde | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Pointe aux Barques | 6.6 miles | 10 | |
| Filion | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Grind Stone City | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Glencoe | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Huron City | 11.9 miles | 9 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q118436004 | 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 1617800. 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.