St. Clair, Michigan
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1991. It stands in St. Clair City. It lies in ZIP code area 48079. It stands on Pine River. The Survey maps it on the St. Clair quadrangle. 5,464 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.
On record in St. Clair
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 1 record
St. Clair Innlisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresSt. Clair fell from 5,485 to 5,464 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 | 5,485 | |
| 2020 | 5,464 | -21 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 14 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.
- 1912 USGS Port Huron quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Port Huron quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS St. Clair quadrangle1:31680
- 1939 USGS St. Clair quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS St. Clair quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS St. Clair quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Lake St. Clair North quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS St. Clair quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of St. Clair between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 485 - 2019 |
| 1 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 434 - 2020 |
| 9 June 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 374 - 2020 |
| 28 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 355 - 2019 |
| 14 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 251 - 2019 |
| 1 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MARYSVILLE FD 0000563 - 2018 |
| 7 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 183 - 2019 |
| 6 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 232 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of St. Clair: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Phosphorus-Phosphates, Halite, Salt. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Courtright Phosphoric Acid Plant | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Plant | 1966 | |
| Diamond Crystal Salt Company | Salt | Producer | ||
| St. Clair Salt Mine | Halite | Producer | 1863, 1883 | |
| Shriner Brick Co.Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| W.River Clay Sample | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Prospect |
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names St. Clair in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | $25,000 | The local newspaper included photographs of a 35-foot motor home on its side. The wind also picked up and tossed a 300-pound table across the patio at the same home and blew a large tree down on the home next door. Total property damages were estimated at roughly $25K. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | $8,000 | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | $5,000 | Multiple reports of trees and power lines down. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | $3,000 | Downed wires. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | $3,000 | A trained spotter reported shingles blown off a roof. |
| May 2003 | Lightning | St Clair | $1,000 | The post office on Trumball Street was closed for much of the day after lightning stuck the roof and caused the building's telephone lines and computer systems down. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | - | Scattered five to eight inch diameter tree limbs were reported down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | - | A trained spotter reported multiple large tree branches down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | - | Trained spotter reported an 8 inch diameter tree limb down. |
| July 2023 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | St Clair | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | St Clair | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawthorne | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Marysville | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Rattle Run | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Marine City | 7.0 miles | 5 | |
| Adair | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| South Park | 8.6 miles | 15 | |
| Smiths Creek | 9.0 miles | 12 | |
| Martindale Beach | 9.0 miles | 13 |
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 St. Clair | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1936982 | 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 1624881. 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.










