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.
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
Joseph M. Loop Houselisted 1972
Port Sanilac Light Stationlisted 1984
Port Sanilac Masonic and Town Halllisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresPort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 623 | |
| 2020 | 567 | -56 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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 Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Port Sanilac quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Croswell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2018Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PORT SANILAC FD 98 - 2020 |
| 24 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PORT SANILAC FD 12018 - 2018 |
| 9 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | PORT SANILAC FD 256 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Sanilac | $50,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Sanilac | - | Multiple reports of trees down across Carsonville. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Sanilac | - | Multiple trees down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Sanilac | - | Local law enforcement reported trees down. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Port Sanilac | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forester | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Pine Hill (historical) | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Carsonville | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Applegate | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Richmondville | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Lexington | 11.2 miles | 10 | |
| McGregor | 11.4 miles | 10 | |
| Croswell | 11.5 miles | 10 |
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 Sanilac | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2844013 | 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 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.



