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Bangor, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Bangor City. It lies in ZIP code area 49013. It stands on Maple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bangor quadrangle. 2,016 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Bangor within Van Buren County

On record in Bangor

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bangor grew from 1,885 to 2,016 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,885
20202,016+131 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

19 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Bangor between 2005 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 325 - 2020
30 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 285 - 2019
29 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 260 - 2020
25 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 255 - 2020
9 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 185 - 2020
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 169 - 2018
6 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 179 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bangor: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fish and Steward Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bangor in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBangor$50,000no account filed
April 2001HailBangor$25,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBangor$25,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBangor$20,000no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBangor$10,000Multiple trees were blown down near Bangor.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindBangor$10,000Several trees were blown down in Geneva and Decatur.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindBangor$10,000Multiple trees and power lines were blown down near Bangor.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBangor$10,000A 65 m.p.h. wind gust was reported by a trained spotter in Bangor.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBangor$10,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBangor$5,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBangor$2,500Downed trees blocked eastbound lane of Michigan Highway 43 in Bangor.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBangor$2,500Van Buren County Central Dispatch reported a few trees and power lines downed in Bangor Township.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBangor$2,500Several large limbs downed in Bangor.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBangor$500The sheriff reported high winds were blowing down signs.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBangor-Large healthy tree snapped.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBangor-Three large healthy trees were blown down three miles south southwest of Kendall. Power outages and minor wind damage were reported in Bangor.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBangor-State police reported that a couple of trees were blown down one mile north of Bangor.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindBangor-12 inch diameter tree limb down.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Breedsville3.2 miles11
West Bangor3.9 miles11
McDonald4.0 miles11
Jericho Corners5.4 miles11
Friendsville5.9 miles11
Stoughton Corners6.4 miles10
Grand Junction6.7 miles11
Toquin7.0 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BangorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2155167The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 620546. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.