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Place Name
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Bay City
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Population
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38,936 (1990)
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Location
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Bay County, Michigan (MI), United States, North America
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Latitude
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43°35'N
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Longitude
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83°53'W
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Bay City
, city (1990 pop. 38,936),  Bay co., S
Mich., a port of entry on the Saginaw R. at its mouth on Saginaw Bay
(an inlet of L. Huron); 43°35'N 83°53'W. Its harbor handles Great
Lakes and ocean shipping; it is also a RR junction. Bay City is the
industrial, marketing, and transportation center of a rich farm area
that yields sugar beets, potatoes, and dairy prods. Shipbuilding is
also important. The city grew as a large lumbering center, but when the
forests were depleted (after 1890), it turned to diversified mfg.
(metal fabrication, automobile parts, food prods., machinery, apparel).
Saginaw Valley State Univ. at Univ. Center is to SW. County Mus. Bay
City State Park to N on Saginaw Bay. Inc. 1859 with the consolidation
of several settlements along the river.
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