Bath, Michigan

Bath, Michigan
FIPS code		26-05880[3]
GNIS feature ID	2583717[1]

Bath is an

History

Bath was platted in 1864.[5]

The community of Bath was listed as a newly-organized

American supercentenarian Irene Dunham was born in Bath.

Bath School disaster

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On May 18, 1927, in what became known as the Bath School disaster,

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 1,000 pounds (450 kg) 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 square miles (15.38 km²), of which 5.74 square miles (14.87 km²) is land and 0.20 square miles (0.52 km²) (3.37%) is water.^[4]

Demographics

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
2020	2,841		—
U.S. Decennial Census[7]

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See also

• Bath Community Schools, which serves Bath and surrounding areas

References

Sources

• Romig, Walter (October 1, 1986) [1973]. Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities (Paperback). Great Lakes Books Series. Detroit:
  ISBN 978-0814318386
  .

Further reading

• Wilkins, Gene H.; Ellsworth, Monty J. (2002). My Scrapbook on the Bath School Bombing of May 18th, 1927 with Many Never Before Published Photographs, Stories & Survivors' Quotes. Bath, MI: Timber Wolf.
  OCLC 50074882. Online transcription of the first edition
  .