Pointe Aux Barques Township
Pointe Aux Barques Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15 at the 2020 census. Pointe Aux Barques is located at the tip of the Thumb on the Lower Peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 15 residents
- Description: township in Huron County, Michigan
- Also known as: “Pointe Aux Barques Township, Michigan” and “Township of Pointe Aux Barques”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Port Austin Light and Turnip Rock.
Port Austin Light
Lighthouse
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Port Austin Lighthouse is a lighthouse off the shore of Lake Huron, about 2.5 miles north of Port Austin, Huron County Michigan sitting on a rocky reef, which is just north of the tip of the Thumb and a real hazard to navigation.
Turnip Rock
Turnip Rock is a small geological formation in Michigan. It is a stack located in Lake Huron, in shallow water a few yards offshore, near the rock called the Thumbnail which is the extreme tip of Pointe Aux Barques, a small peninsula in Pointe Aux Barques Township which in turn is the extreme tip of The Thumb, a large peninsula comprising several counties in eastern Michigan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Austin and Grindstone City Historic District.
Port Austin
Village
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Port Austin is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 664 at the 2010 census. The village is within Port Austin Township. Port Austin is situated 2½ miles southwest of Pointe Aux Barques Township.
Grindstone City Historic District
Hamlet
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Grindstone City Historic District is an industrial historic district located on M-25 in Grindstone City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Grindstone City Historic District is situated 3 miles southeast of Pointe Aux Barques Township.
Pointe Aux Barques Township
- Category: township of Michigan
- Location: Huron, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Pointe Aux Barques Township” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلدة بوينت أوكس باركيوس”
- Chinese: “巴克角鎮區”
- Finnish: “Pointe Aux Barques Township”
- French: “Pointe Aux Barques”
- Mazanderani: “بارانت پوینت اوکس تاؤنشیپ (میشیگان)”
- Mazanderani: “بارانت پوینت اوکس تاؤنشیپ”
- Persian: “ناحیه بارانت پوینت اوکس، میشیگان”
- Persian: “ناحیه بارانت پوینت اوکس”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Pointe Aux Barques (condado de Huron, Míchigan)”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Pointe Aux Barques”
- Urdu: “پوائنٹ آکس بارقس ٹاؤن شپ، مشی گن”
- Urdu: “پوائنٹ آکس بارقس ٹاؤن شپ”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Pointe Aux Barques, Michigan”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Pointe Aux Barques, Quận Huron, Michigan”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Pointe Aux Barques”
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Notable Places Nearby
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