New Baltimore, Michigan
| New Baltimore | |
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| City | |
| City of New Baltimore | |
Downtown New Baltimore in January 2004
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 Location of New Baltimore, Michigan |
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| Coordinates: 42°40′52″N 82°44′13″W / 42.68111°N 82.73694°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Michigan |
| County | Macomb |
| First Settled | 1796 (by French fur trappers) |
| Organized | 1867 (village) |
| Incorporated | 1931 (city) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Strong Mayor |
| • Mayor | John Dupray |
| • City Clerk | Marcia Shinska |
| • City Treasurer | Jeanne Bade |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6.73 sq mi (17.43 km2) |
| • Land | 4.61 sq mi (11.94 km2) |
| • Water | 2.12 sq mi (5.49 km2) |
| Elevation | 584 ft (178 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 12,084 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 12,133 |
| • Density | 2,621.3/sq mi (1,012.1/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Zip Code | 48047 |
| Area code(s) | 586 |
| FIPS code | 26-57100 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0633313 |
| Website | http://www.cityofnewbaltimore.com |
New Baltimore is a city and a historic, coastal resort community in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 12,084 at the 2010 census. New Baltimore is in Metropolitan Detroit.
New Baltimore incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1931. It is located on the north coastline of Lake St. Clair, along the boundary line of Macomb and St. Clair Counties. The town sits on the waterfront along Lake St. Clair's Anchor Bay, and offers a public park, beach, and downtown-shopping district.
German explorer Pierre Yax (b.1763) in Grosse Pointe, New France (now Michigan) was the first recorded non-Native American in the New Baltimore area. Pierre Yax was a son of Johan Michael Jacks, the first German in what would eventually become the state of Michigan. Pierre Yax arrived in New Baltimore in 1796 and subsequently obtained a land grant signed by President John Quincy Adams on July 23, 1826. The land grant tracked back to a land patent Yax had in 1812, when Michigan was still part of the Michigan Territory.
Later, other French settlers came to this area and took residence along the waterfront and rivers. They developed farms that had narrow frontage of 400 of 900 feet and extended inland from the water. Generally, the depth of the parcel was determined by how far a man could plow or cultivate in a day.
The first evidence of a settled community came in 1845, when a Mount Clemens businessman, Alfred Ashley, platted 60 acres (24 ha) of land lying on both sides of Washington Street. This would become known as the village of Ashley. On September 20, 1851, a post office called Ashleyville was established with Ashley as postmaster. Ashley also opened businesses in lumbering, shipping, and real estate. The original village of Ashley occupied what is now the center part of downtown New Baltimore, extending northwest along Clay, Base and Maria Streets from Anchor Bay. The land was subdivided in the typical gridiron fashion used in most American communities at that time. Over the years, irregularities developed in the gridiron subdivision pattern because of the lack of local controls, conflicts with French claims, and changing land uses, particularly along the waterfront area. This created problems in both subdivision patterns in general and waterfront use in particular that remain today. This original settlement bore Ashley’s name until 1867, when the village name was changed to New Baltimore.
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