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History · Bay de Noc Township

14% of Bay de Noc Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Peninsula Point Lighthouse. Below: maps from 1932 on.

1on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Bay de Noc Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Bay de Noc Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Bay de Noc Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bay de Noc Township’s history is told.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Edwin
1894–1901
Stonington
1897–1957
18901960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Stonington
Gone or out of use
Edwin Post Officepost officeStonington Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Bay de Noc Township
Bay De NocIndian TownLakeviewLakewood

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Bay de Noc Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Bay de Noc Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Bay de Noc Township is a civil township of Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 300, slightly down from 305 at the 2010 census. The township covers the southern portion of the Stonington Peninsula separating Little Bay de Noc and Big Bay de Noc on Lake Michigan. The name is derived from the Noquet Indians. Ensign Township is to the north and Escanaba is to the west across the Little Bay de Noc.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 305 in 2010, 300 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Bay de Noc Township, 1865 to 1957

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1865BuiltPeninsula Point Lighthouse is built
  3. 1894Post officeThe Edwin post office opens
  4. 1897Post officeThe Stonington post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901Post officeThe Edwin post office closes
  7. 1932On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1957Post officeThe Stonington post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Bay de Noc Township on the map, 1932 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Bay de Noc Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Bay de Noc Township on the 1932 USGS mapBay de Noc Township on the 1958 USGS mapBay de Noc Township on the 1985 USGS map1932Rapid River SW sheet · 1:31,680

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Bay de Noc Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Bay de Noc Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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National Historic Landmarks
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first listed
1975
Peninsula Point Lighthouse
Peninsula Point Lighthouse, built 1865
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Lighthouse1
Peninsula Point LighthouseLighthouse · Built 1865

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Bay de Noc Township

Nobody well known was born in Bay de Noc Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Tom BissellAmerican journalist · b. 1974
Roger H. ZionAmerican politician · b. 1921
Albin Walter Norblad Jr.American politician · b. 1908
John B. BennettAmerican politician · b. 1904
John F. LueckeAmerican politician · b. 1889
Deb BakerAmerican mystery writer from the Upper Peninsul… · b. 1953
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Ensign TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Bay de Noc Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Bay de Noc Township?

One place: the Peninsula Point Lighthouse (listed 1975).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.