Bath, Michigan

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Bath, Michigan
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Location within Clinton County
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Bath
Location within the state of Michigan
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Bath
Location within the United States
Coordinates: 42°49′12″N84°27′16″W / 42.82000°N 84.45444°W / 42.82000; -84.45444 Coordinates: 42°49′12″N84°27′16″W / 42.82000°N 84.45444°W / 42.82000; -84.45444 [1]
CountryUnited States
State Michigan
County Clinton
Township Bath
Platted 1864
Area
[2]
  Total6.06 sq mi (15.69 km2)
  Land5.86 sq mi (15.18 km2)
  Water0.20 sq mi (0.52 km2)
Elevation
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824 ft (251 m)
Population
 (2020)
  Total2,841
  Density484.81/sq mi (187.17/km2)
Time zone UTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
  Summer (DST) UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP code(s)
48808
Area code 517
FIPS code 26-05880 [3]
GNIS feature ID2583717 [1]

Bath is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in Bath Charter Township. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 2,083. [4]

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History

Bath was platted in 1864. [5]

The community of Bath was listed as a newly-organized census-designated place for the 2010 census, meaning it now has officially defined boundaries and population statistics for the first time. [6]

American supercentenarian Irene Dunham was born in Bath.

Bath School disaster

On May 18, 1927, in what became known as the Bath School disaster, Andrew Kehoe, a farmer and local school board member angry over losing an election for town clerk and under notice for foreclosure, killed his wife, detonated bombs in his house and farm buildings, and at the same time set off a bomb in the consolidated school. He drove to the school in a truck rigged with more explosives, which he detonated next to the school superintendent. In all, Kehoe killed 44 people, 38 of them children, and himself, in the worst school mass murder in U.S. history. Only half of the 1,000 pounds (450 kg) of explosives set under the school went off, probably greatly lowering the death toll. Thirty-eight of the 314 students, three teachers, the superintendent, the postmaster, and a local farmer assisting at the scene were killed. Most of the dead were students from second to sixth grade. Fifty-eight others were injured.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.94 square miles (15.38 km2), of which 5.74 square miles (14.87 km2) is land and 0.20 square miles (0.52 km2) (3.37%) is water. [4]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
2020 2,841
U.S. Decennial Census [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bath, Michigan
  2. "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  3. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  4. 1 2 "Michigan: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts 2010 Census of Population and Housing" (PDF). 2010 United States Census . United States Census Bureau. September 2012. p. 19 Michigan. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  5. Romig 1986, p. 46.
  6. "Michigan: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts 2010 Census of Population and Housing" (PDF). 2010 United States Census . United States Census Bureau. September 2012. p. III-5. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
  7. "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.

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