Bath, Michigan
title: "Bath, Michigan" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bath-charter-township,-michigan", "unincorporated-communities-in-clinton-county,-michigan", "unincorporated-communities-in-michigan", "census-designated-places-in-clinton-county,-michigan", "census-designated-places-in-michigan", "populated-places-established-in-1864", "1864-establishments-in-michigan"] topic_path: "general/bath-charter-township-michigan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath,_Michigan" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Bath, Michigan |
| settlement_type | Census-designated place (CDP) & unincorporated community |
| pushpin_map | Michigan#USA |
| pushpin_label_position | left |
| pushpin_label | Bath |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location within the state of Michigan##Location within the United States |
| image_map | Bath (CDP), MI location.png |
| mapsize | 250 |
| map_caption | Location within Clinton County |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | United States |
| subdivision_type1 | State |
| subdivision_name1 | Michigan |
| subdivision_type2 | County |
| subdivision_name2 | Clinton |
| subdivision_type3 | Township |
| subdivision_name3 | Bath |
| established_title | Platted |
| established_date | 1864 |
| area_footnotes | |
| area_total_km2 | 15.69 |
| area_land_km2 | 15.18 |
| area_water_km2 | 0.52 |
| area_total_sq_mi | 6.06 |
| area_land_sq_mi | 5.86 |
| area_water_sq_mi | 0.20 |
| population_as_of | 2020 |
| population_total | 2841 |
| population_density_km2 | 187.17 |
| population_density_sq_mi | 484.81 |
| timezone | Eastern (EST) |
| utc_offset | −5 |
| timezone_DST | EDT |
| utc_offset_DST | −4 |
| elevation_footnotes | |
| elevation_ft | 824 |
| coordinates | |
| postal_code_type | ZIP code(s) |
| postal_code | 48808 |
| area_code | 517 |
| blank_name | FIPS code |
| blank_info | 26-05880 |
| blank1_name | GNIS feature ID |
| blank1_info | 2583717 |
| unit_pref | Imperial |
| :: |
|official_name = Bath, Michigan |settlement_type = Census-designated place (CDP) & unincorporated community |nickname = |motto =
|image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_flag = |image_seal =
|pushpin_map = Michigan#USA |pushpin_label_position = left |pushpin_label = Bath |pushpin_map_caption = Location within the state of Michigan##Location within the United States |pushpin_mapsize = |image_map = Bath (CDP), MI location.png |mapsize = 250 |map_caption = Location within Clinton County
|subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = Michigan |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Clinton |subdivision_type3 = Township |subdivision_name3 = Bath
|government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name = |leader_title1 = |leader_name1 = |established_title = Platted |established_date = 1864
|area_footnotes = |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 15.69 |area_land_km2 = 15.18 |area_water_km2 = 0.52 |area_total_sq_mi = 6.06 |area_land_sq_mi = 5.86 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.20
|population_as_of = 2020 |population_footnotes = |population_total = 2841 |population_density_km2 = 187.17 |population_density_sq_mi = 484.81
|timezone = Eastern (EST) |utc_offset = −5 |timezone_DST = EDT |utc_offset_DST = −4 |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_ft = 824 |coordinates =
|postal_code_type = ZIP code(s) |postal_code = 48808 |area_code = 517 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 26-05880 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 2583717 |website = |footnotes = |pop_est_as_of = |pop_est_footnotes = |population_est = |unit_pref = Imperial
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 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 2,841.
History
Bath was platted in 1864.
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.
American supercentenarian Irene Dunham was born in Bath.
Bath School disaster
Main article: 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 1000 lb 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 deceased 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 sqmi, of which 5.74 sqmi is land and 0.20 sqmi (3.37%) is water.
Demographics
| align = left | 2010 = 2083 | 2020 = 2841 | footnote = U.S. Decennial Census
References
Sources
References
- "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau.
- "U.S. Census website". [[United States Census Bureau]].
- {{GNIS. 2583717
- "Bath CDP, Michigan".
- (September 2012). "Michigan: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts 2010 Census of Population and Housing". [[United States Census Bureau]].
- "Bath school disaster (1927) {{!}} Description, Aftermath, & Facts {{!}} Britannica". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Jones, Amie. (2023). "Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing, Updated and Expanded Edition by Arnie Bernstein (review)". Michigan Historical Review.
- "The Bath School Disaster, by M. J. Ellsworth {{!}} The Online Books Page".
- (September 2012). "Michigan: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts 2010 Census of Population and Housing". [[United States Census Bureau]].
- "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov.
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