New Baltimore is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 12,117 at the 2020 census. New Baltimore is a northern suburb of Metro Detroit and is located along the northern shores of Lake St. Clair.

New Baltimore incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1931. Previously, it was split amongst Macomb and St. Clair counties; however, in the 1970s, the city was skillful to petition to get used to the county boundaries such that it would align subsequently the city’s eastern border. This placed New Baltimore certainly in Macomb County, where it remains to this day. The town sits on the wharf along Lake St. Clair’s Anchor Bay, and offers a public park, beach, and downtown-shopping district.

Prior to the beginning of European settlers, indigenous tribes are known to have inhabited much of New Baltimore’s shoreline for thousands of years, and in the 1800’s the land was recorded to have many ancient burial mounds and man made earth-works. W.B Hinsdale excavated multipart sites in New Baltimore, and recorded his countless findings in his novels in the early 20th century. Most of these locations have long been destroyed by adore hunters and developed over, with an unfortunate though seemingly familiar nonattendance of regard to the public’s knowledge of the cities enormous history with native tribes.

German trailblazer Pierre Yax (b.1763) in Grosse Pointe, New France (now Michigan) was the first recorded non-Native American in the New Baltimore area. Pierre Yax was a son of Johan Michael Jacks, the first German in what would eventually become the declare of Michigan. Pierre Yax arrived in New Baltimore in 1796 and later than obtained a land agree signed by President John Quincy Adams upon July 23, 1826. The land take over tracked back to a estate patent Yax had in 1812, when Michigan was nevertheless part of the Michigan Territory.