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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.

St. Clair within St. Clair County

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

Population over time

2 figures

St. 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,485
20205,464-21 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

12 since 2018

Regional 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 485 - 2019
1 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 434 - 2020
9 June 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 374 - 2020
28 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 355 - 2019
14 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 251 - 2019
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARYSVILLE FD 0000563 - 2018
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 183 - 2019
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR AREA FIRE AUTHORITY 232 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Courtright Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant1966
Diamond Crystal Salt CompanySaltProducer
St. Clair Salt MineHaliteProducer1863, 1883
Shriner Brick Co.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
W.River Clay SampleFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$25,000The 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 1999Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$8,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$5,000Multiple reports of trees and power lines down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$3,000Downed wires.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSt Clair$3,000A trained spotter reported shingles blown off a roof.
May 2003LightningSt Clair$1,000The 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 2015Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-Scattered five to eight inch diameter tree limbs were reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-A trained spotter reported multiple large tree branches down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-Trained spotter reported an 8 inch diameter tree limb down.
July 2023HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2008HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2008HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2008HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2006HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2002HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2002HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2002HailSt Clair-no account filed
June 2000HailSt Clair-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-no account filed
July 1996HailSt Clair-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSt Clair-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Hawthorne3.4 miles14
Marysville6.3 miles15
Rattle Run6.8 miles13
Marine City7.0 miles5
Adair8.0 miles13
South Park8.6 miles15
Smiths Creek9.0 miles12
Martindale Beach9.0 miles13

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. ClairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1936982The 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.