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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.

Suttons Bay within Leelanau County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Suttons 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.

YearPeople Change
2010618
2020613-5 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

18 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa IndiansLODGE
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSUTTONS BAY-BINGHAM FIRE & RESCUE AUTHORITY 000014
15 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa IndiansSUTTONS BY
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyMCKEESE FIREWORKS
29 July 2011Fireworksunder an acreMichigan AgencyHOUSING
21 July 2013Smoking1.5 acresGrand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa IndiansSTRONG HART
23 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa IndiansNINATGO
15 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEELANAU TOWNSHIP FD 2020142 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leelanau County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSuttons Bay-$10,000Trees and power lines were downed along a path from two miles south of Cedar, through Fouch and Bingham, to Suttons Bay.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSuttons Bay$8,000Several trees were downed. One large downed tree blocked M-22 north of Suttons Bay.
July 2016HailSuttons Bay-Considerable damage done to fruit crops, especially cherries.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSuttons Bay-Trees down on roadways.
June 2011HailSuttons Bay-no account filed
April 2009HailSuttons Bay-no account filed
July 2008HailSuttons Bay-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindSuttons Bay-no account filed
May 2001HailSuttons Bay-no account filed
May 2001HailSuttons Bay-no account filed
May 2000HailSuttons Bay-no account filed
June 1998HailSuttons Bay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leelanau 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
Fountain Point2.9 miles13
Keswick3.3 miles13
Lake Leelanau3.4 miles13
Peshawbestown4.2 miles12
Leelanau Shores6.3 miles13
Omena6.3 miles12
Leland6.6 miles10
Bingham7.1 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 Suttons BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2995973The 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.