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Barryton, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49305. It stands on North Branch Chippewa River. The Survey maps it on the Merrill Lake quadrangle. 405 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Barryton within Mecosta County

Population over time

2 figures

Barryton grew from 355 to 405 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
2010355
2020405+50 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Barryton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 141 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000254 - 2019
6 August 2001Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 1995Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 June 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use15 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 May 2008Other causes6.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMECOSTA 01

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mecosta County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Barryton: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mecosta County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mecosta County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barryton in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
May 2020FloodBarryton$75,000The Chippewa Vista subdivision had some flooding due to flooding on the Chippewa River near Barryton.
July 2001HailBarryton$25,000no account filed
June 2003HailBarryton$20,000A report of three quarters inch hail was received from Barryton.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBarryton$15,000Law enforcement reported several trees blown down in Barryton.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBarryton$10,000An emergency manager reported that numerous trees were blown down about 9 miles west of Barryton.

Every storm recorded in Mecosta 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
Chippewa Vista2.7 miles12
Titus6.2 miles12
Chippewa Lake8.0 miles14
Mecosta10.0 miles12
Remus10.8 miles12
Pogy10.9 miles13
Rodney11.0 miles14
Grant Center13.6 miles14

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 BarrytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1816095The 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 620652. 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.