Bay Port Historic Commercial Fishing District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Bay Port Historic Commercial Fishing District is a commercial fishing historic district located on Lakeside Drive and First Street adjacent to Saginaw Bay in Bay Port, Michigan. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.”
Wikipedia article Bay Port Historic Commercial Fishing District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Huron County · listed in 1977 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Off MI 25, Bay Port, 48720
When was it listed? September 1977
Category. district
Township. Fairhaven township
National Register reference number. 77000714 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bay Port Historic Commercial Fishing District between 2012 and 2020, burning about 258 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
13 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FAIRHAVEN TWP FD 2020011 - 2020
9 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	257 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HURON 01 - HEISTERMAN ISLAND

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bay Port Historic Commercial Fishing District: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Wallace Stone Plant	Limestone, General	Producer	Sedimentary
Wallace Stone Plant	Stone	Producer
Wallace Stone Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Bayport Quarry Limestone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Windsor Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay Port, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bay Port	$20,000	A grain silo sustained some minor damage from thunderstorm winds. Some windows were also reported to have been blown out of a barn.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bay Port	$5,000	Numerous trees and tree limbs blown down.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bay Port	$1,000	Four trees were reported down near Bay Port.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bay Port	-	Trees and power lines reported down, along with dime size hail. One tree fell onto a car.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Bay Port	-	Power lines reported down.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bay Port	-	Trees reported blown down.
May 1998	Hail	Bay Port	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huron County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000714 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Huron County	All 27 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.