Suttons Bay, Michigan
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Suttons Bay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49682. It stands on Leo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Suttons Bay quadrangle. 613 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.
On record in Suttons Bay
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
Leelanau Transit Company Suttons Bay Depotlisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresSuttons Bay fell from 618 to 613 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 | 618 | |
| 2020 | 613 | -5 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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 Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Suttons Bay quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Traverse City quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
18 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Suttons Bay between 1999 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 2 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 | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians | LODGE |
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000014 |
| 15 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians | SUTTONS BY |
| 4 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | MCKEESE FIREWORKS |
| 29 July 2011 | Fireworks | under an acre | Michigan Agency | HOUSING |
| 21 July 2013 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians | STRONG HART |
| 23 June 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians | NINATGO |
| 15 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suttons Bay in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 8 hail, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Suttons Bay- | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were downed along a path from two miles south of Cedar, through Fouch and Bingham, to Suttons Bay. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Suttons Bay | $8,000 | Several trees were downed. One large downed tree blocked M-22 north of Suttons Bay. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Suttons Bay | - | Considerable damage done to fruit crops, especially cherries. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Suttons Bay | - | Trees down on roadways. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Suttons Bay | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Suttons Bay | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Suttons Bay | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Suttons Bay | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Suttons Bay | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Suttons Bay | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Suttons Bay | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Suttons Bay | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fountain Point | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Keswick | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Leelanau | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Peshawbestown | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Leelanau Shores | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Omena | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Leland | 6.6 miles | 10 | |
| Bingham | 7.1 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 Suttons Bay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2995973 | 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 639135. 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.





