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Bay County

county in Michigan, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_michigan Q74704

Facts

22 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Michigan
Inception
1857[12]
Official website
www.baycounty-mi.gov[14]
Native label
Bay County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 43.720°, -83.940°[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Michigan[2]
Shares border with
Arenac County, Saginaw County, Tuscola County, Gladwin County, Midland County[5][6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+1634
Population
104k (104k–108k, n=7)[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
More facts +12
Capital
Bay City[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Bay City[11]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Michigan/Bay County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Bay County, Michigan[23]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Bay City metropolitan area
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108927
Named after
Saginaw Bay[10]
Number of households
+44627
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/Bay County, Michigan
Per capita income
+28331
Water as percent of area
+30
🏷️ Also known as
en Bay County en Bay County, MI en Bay County, Michigan ar مقاطعة باي es Condado de Bay es Condado de Bay (Míchigan) fa شهرستان بی fi Bayn piirikunta fr Comte de Bay fr comté de Bay fr Comté de la Baie he מחוז ביי he מחוז ביי (מישיגן) he מחוז ביי, מישיגן, ארצות הברית hu Bay megye it contea di Bay ja ベイ郡 ko 베이군 pl Hrabstwo Bay ro Comitatul Bay, Michigan
🔖 Identifiers · 30
VIAF cluster ID
145417591
Library of Congress authority ID
n80125533
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Bay City Masonic Temple in 2014.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
19388
Ballotpedia ID
Bay_County,_Michigan
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Michigan/Counties/Bay/
FIPS 6-4 ID
26017
Freebase ID
/m/0njwd
GADM ID
USA.23.9_1
GNIS Feature ID
1622951
GeoNames ID
4985190
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000948
Show all 30 identifiers +18
HASC
US.MI.BY
INaturalist place ID
2006
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.26017
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007559780905171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00086611
Official map URL
www.baycounty-mi.gov
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791933
OpenStreetMap relation ID
571344
Our Campaigns container ID
3980
Taxonomicon ID
1806138
Topic's main category
Category:Bay County, Michigan
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039575
UMLS CUI
C3811857
Who's on First ID
102083135
WikiTree category or space
Category:Bay County, Michigan
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"BayCounty", "Michigan", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJqK96jhH8ky93jdw9xVYP
Yale LUX ID
place/2d89e698-304b-474b-9dfe-43f4a621fe02
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
176 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Detroit 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 21
Bay City, Auburn, Essexville, Pinconning, Saginaw River, Frankenlust Township, Beaver Township, Gibson Township +13 more
Shares border with 5
Midland County, Arenac County, Gladwin County, Saginaw County, Tuscola County
← Shares border with 5
Midland County, Arenac County, Gladwin County, Saginaw County, Tuscola County
Employees / affiliates 3
Chris Izworski, Chris Izworski, Chris Izworski
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from Bay County, Michigan, Category:Populated places in Bay County, Michigan, Category:Geography of Bay County, Michigan
Capital 1
Bay City
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Bay County, Michigan
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Bay City
Country 1
United States
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Michigan
Named after 1
Saginaw Bay
Topic's main category 1
Category:Bay County, Michigan
← Capital of 1
Bay City
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Bay County, Michigan
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Michigan
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Summary

Bay County is a county of Michigan[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Bay County covers an area of {'amount': '+1634'}[24].

Related Entities

Chris Izworski Michigan United States

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Class ancestry

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Bay County, Michiga
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Bay County, Michigan.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidential "
  2. 9w ago · Natsthename1 · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    WikiTree category or space → Category:Bay County, Michigan
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ WikiTree category or space: Category:Bay County, Michigan"
  3. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3811857
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00086611
    Taxonomicon ID → 1806138
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31546|batch #31546]]"
  4. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Category for people born here → Category:Births in Bay County, Michigan
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
    Inception → +1857-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ NCI Thesaurus ID: C108927, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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