Saugatuck, Michigan
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Saugatuck City. It lies in ZIP code area 49453. It stands on Goshorn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saugatuck quadrangle. 865 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.
On record in Saugatuck
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 7 records
All Saints' Episcopal Churchlisted 1984
Dorr E. Felt Mansionlisted 1996
Leiendecker's Inn-Coral Gableslisted 2009
Navigation Structures at Saugatuck Harborlisted 2001
Saugatuck Pump Houselisted 2015
Warner P. Sutton Houselisted 1992- Saugatuck Gap Filler Annexlisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresSaugatuck fell from 925 to 865 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 | 925 | |
| 2020 | 865 | -60 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1928 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1931 USGS Fennville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Saugatuck quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Holland quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Saugatuck between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.4 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN #8 |
| 7 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HAMILTON FD 0000149 - 2018 |
| 16 May 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2018256 - 2018 |
| 28 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 02 |
| 7 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 8.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEGAN 01 |
| 26 March 2019 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP FD 2019186 - 2019 |
| 26 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | GRAAFSCHAP FD 2018146 - 2018 |
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 Saugatuck: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laketown Site | Silica | Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
12 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saugatuck in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2005: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Hail | Saugatuck | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Saugatuck | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | $20,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down in Saugatuck and Fennville. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | $20,000 | Several trees were blown down in Saugatuck and Allegan by thunderstorm wind gusts, as reported by area law enforcement. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Saugatuck | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Saugatuck | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | - | A trained weather spotter reported a 81 mph wind gust measured by his local anemometer. The spotter also reported a tree was downed across Michigan Highway 89 in the southern part of Saugatuck Township. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugatuck | - | Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph in Saugatuck. |
| April 1998 | Hail | East Saugatuck | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Saugatuck | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas | 0.8 miles | 15 | |
| Oxbow | 0.9 miles | 15 | |
| Old Saugatuck | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Shorewood | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Beachmont | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Singapore (historical) | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Macks Landing | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Gibson | 3.9 miles | 15 |
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 Saugatuck | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2686437 | 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 637271. 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.





