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Welcome to Bay Mills ...

Bay Mills is located in the eastern region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP).

Bay Mills is located in Chippewa County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bay Mills, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1879.

A typical abbreviation for Bay Mills: Bay Mls. (or less commonly used: Bay Mlls.)

Bay Mills is 600 feet [183 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Bay Mills lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Bay Mills: 906

Communities Also Named Bay Mills ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Bay Mills - it's located in Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bay Mills.

Communities near Bay Mills ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Bay Mills.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Bay Mills. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Bay Mills.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Bay Mills. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bay Mills.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Bay Mills. See our Newspapers Page for Bay Mills.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Bay Mills ...

Looking for more information about Bay Mills? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Bay Mills, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Bay Mills.

Adding Bay Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bay Mills in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Bay Mills was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Bay Mills post office opened in 1879.

We also found Bay Mills in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bay Mills.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Michigan's counties, including Chippewa, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Bay Mills - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/