Sac Bay, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairbanks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49835. The Survey maps it on the Fayette quadrangle.

Sac Bay within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1932 USGS Burnt Bluff NW quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Escanaba quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fairport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1983 USGS Manistique quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Fayette quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Sac Bay between 2002 and 2019, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
21 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAYETTE FIRE
20 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	GARDEN TOWNSHIP VFD 0201906 - 2019
17 March 2010	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SAC BAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sac Bay in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sac Bay	$1,000	Public report of downed trees between Sac Bay and Fayette. Most of Garden Peninsula lost power for around 2 hours.

Every storm recorded in Delta 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fairport	2.7 miles	9
Fayette	4.8 miles	9
Devils Corner	7.6 miles	9
Garden	11.4 miles	10
Nahma	13.3 miles	9
Stonington	15.9 miles	8
Ogontz	16.0 miles	9
Nahma Junction	17.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617832. 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.