Editing Pointe Aux Barques Township, Michigan

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|official_name            = Pointe Aux Barques Township, Michigan
|settlement_type          = [[Civil township]]
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|subdivision_name1        = [[Michigan]]
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|subdivision_name2        = [[Huron County, Michigan|Huron]]

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|leader_title             = Supervisor
|leader_name              = Patricia Gotfredson
|leader_title1            = [[Municipal clerk|Clerk]]
|leader_name1             = Anne Milligan
|established_title        = Organized
|established_date         = 1903

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|population_total         = 15
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|population_density_sq_mi = 11.5

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|postal_code              = 48467 ([[Port Austin, Michigan|Port Austin]])
|area_code                = [[Area code 989|989]]
|blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
|blank_info               = 26-65180<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref>
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'''Pointe Aux Barques Township''' ({{IPAc-en|p|ɔɪ|n|t|_|ə|_|b|ɑ:r|k|s}} {{respell|poynt|ə|BARKS}}) is a [[civil township]] of [[Huron County, Michigan|Huron County]] in the U.S. state of [[Michigan]]. The population was 15 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].

Pointe Aux Barques is located at the tip of [[the Thumb]] on the [[Lower Peninsula of Michigan|Lower Peninsula]].  With a permanent population of only 15, the township is the [[List of municipalities in Michigan|least-populated municipality]] in the state and the third smallest township by land area after [[Novi Township, Michigan|Novi Township]] and [[Royal Oak Charter Township, Michigan|Royal Oak Charter Township]].

==Communities==
*'''Pointe Aux Barques''' is an [[unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] within the township at {{coord|43|40|59|N|83|21|21|W|}}.<ref>{{gnis|635197|Pointe Aux Barques, Michigan}}</ref>  The name is a French translation of "point of ships" and was named by French sailors as early as 1760.  The community had its own post office from June 12, 1897, until June 20, 1957.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Walter |last1=Romig |title=Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |series=Great Lakes Books Series |type=Paperback  |orig-date= 1973 |date=October 1, 1986 |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn = 978-0-8143-1838-6 |location=Detroit, Michigan| page=449}}</ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the township has a total area of {{convert|3.86|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|1.31|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|2.55|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-24.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019111423/http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-24.pdf |archive-date=2012-10-19 |url-status=live|title=Michigan: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts 2010 Census of Population and Housing | date = September 2012|publisher = [[United States Census Bureau]]| work = [[2010 United States Census]]| accessdate = October 14, 2021|page=24 Michigan}}</ref>

The township is located at the northern end of [[The Thumb]].  [[Turnip Rock]], an undercut [[Stack (geology)|stack]], is located just off the shores of the mainland. Surrounded by private property, it is only accessible by water, and there is no public road access.  [[Pointe aux Barques Light]] bears the name of the township but is located in neighboring [[Huron Township, Michigan|Huron Township]].

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1910= 37
|1920= 34
|1930= 24
|1940= 15
|1950= 7
|1960= 52
|1970= 6
|1980= 6
|1990= 15
|2000= 10
|2010= 10
|2020= 15
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
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As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2020, there were 15 people, 11 households, and 7 families residing in the township. There were 70 housing units, but many of them were units of secondary housing not used by full-time residents.

== References ==
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{{Huron County, Michigan}}

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[[Category:Townships in Huron County, Michigan]]
[[Category:Townships in Michigan]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1903]]
[[Category:1903 establishments in Michigan]]
[[Category:Populated places on Lake Huron in the United States]]