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Port Sanilac, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sanilac Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48469. It stands on Liens Creek. The Survey maps it on the Port Sanilac quadrangle. 567 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Port Sanilac within Sanilac County

On record in Port Sanilac

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Port Sanilac fell from 623 to 567 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.

YearPeople Change
2010623
2020567-56 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Port Sanilac between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 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/undetermined3

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
6 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT SANILAC FD 98 - 2020
24 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT SANILAC FD 12018 - 2018
9 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPORT SANILAC FD 256 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanilac County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Sanilac in 5 storm reports between 1993 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
August 1993Thunderstorm WindPort Sanilac$50,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted numerous large trees, up to 2 feet in diameter. Scattered light damage to a few houses occurred due to downed trees. One automobile was heavily damaged by a falling tree.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPort Sanilac-Multiple reports of trees down across Carsonville.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindPort Sanilac-Multiple trees down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPort Sanilac-Local law enforcement reported trees down.
July 2022HailPort Sanilac-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanilac 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
Forester4.9 miles9
Pine Hill (historical)5.0 miles10
Carsonville6.8 miles10
Applegate7.2 miles9
Richmondville10.2 miles9
Lexington11.2 miles10
McGregor11.4 miles10
Croswell11.5 miles10

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 SanilacAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2844013The 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 635267. 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.