[1] The Scott Point site is located about 300 to 400 feet (91 to 122 m) inland from a small sandy bay on the shore of Lake Michigan, in Section 8, Township 41 North, Range 11 West.

[2] The adjacent shoreline is relatively rocky, making this bay the best canoe landing place in the immediate area.

[2] The site was once a Late Woodland period village, with groupings of fire-damaged rocks indicating the locations of hearths.

[2] Pottery sherds, flint arrowheads and scrapers, hammerstones, and bone tools were collected at the site.

[5] The Scott Point site was examined by archaeologist George Quimby multiple times in the early 1960s.