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Type an address or drop in coordinates. You get the site's coordinates in NAD83 and NAD27, ground elevation, county and districts, which FM zone and side of the Mississippi it's on, and how close it is to the Canadian and Mexican borders.

Location

NAD8343° 31′ 27.1″ N 83° 57′ 57.9″ W43.524194, -83.966083
NAD2743° 31′ 27.0″ N 83° 57′ 58.0″ WNOAA NADCON 5
UTM (NAD27)UTM Zone 17: 4,823,084.8 m N, 260,290.2 m E
Ground elevation181.0 m (594 ft) AMSLFCC terrain service, USGS 1 arc-second data

Census geography

StateMichiganGEOID 26
CountyBay CountyGEOID 26017
County subdivisionFrankenlust townshipGEOID 2601730180
Urban areaSaginaw, MI Urban AreaGEOID 77149
Census tractCensus Tract 2854GEOID 26017285400
Census blockBlock 2032GEOID 260172854002032
Congressional districtCongressional District 8GEOID 2608 · 120th Congressional Districts
State senate districtState Senate District 35GEOID 26035 · 2026 State Legislative Districts - Upper
State house districtState House District 96GEOID 26096 · 2026 State Legislative Districts - Lower
2020 block population45
FCC market areasCMA094, BEA057, MTA005, BTA390, PEA081FCC Area API: Cellular Market Area, Economic Area, Major and Basic Trading Areas, Partial Economic Area

FCC rule zones

FM zone (§73.205)Zone II (§73.205(c)) — site is 2.7 km from the Zone I line as approximated here; confirm the zone (a city the line passes through is in Zone I)
Mississippi RiverEastNew call signs start with W (§73.3550(e)); FM translators use the §74.1235(b)(1) table
Mexican border2,078 km (1,291 mi)
Canadian border136 km (84 mi)
  • Within 320 km of Canada: FM stations follow the 1991 U.S.-Canada FM Agreement (§73.207(b)(2)); translators and boosters have the §74.1235(d)(3) limit.

Next steps for this site

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Where this comes from

  • Address matching, coordinates and census geography: the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder. Block population and FCC market areas: the FCC Area API. Ground elevation: the FCC terrain service. NAD27 and UTM: NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NADCON 5).
  • FM zones follow §73.205; K and W call letters follow the Mississippi River (§73.3550(e)), as do the FM translator power tables (§74.1235(b)). Within 320 km of Canada or Mexico, FM stations follow the international agreements (§73.207(b)), and translators and boosters have their own limits (§74.1235(d)).
  • Zone lines, the river and the borders are drawn from public map data and generalized, so sites close to a line are flagged to confirm.

For planning. Not a product of the Census Bureau, the FCC or NOAA.