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Beal City, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Nottawa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48858. The Survey maps it on the Weidman quadrangle. 332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Beal City within Isabella County

Population over time

3 figures

Beal City fell from 345 to 332 between 2000 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
2000345
2010357+12 (+3%)
2020332-25 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Beal City between 2018 and 2019, burning about 60 acres in total. None 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 use5
Smoking1
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
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000221 - 2019
9 May 2018Debris and open burning24 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesISABELLA 01
1 May 2018Smoking5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000028 - 2018
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000107 - 2018
3 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000012 - 2018
25 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNOTTAWA-SHERMAN TWP FD 0000079 - 2018
20 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000016 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Isabella 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 Beal City: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Gray PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Natnal Portland Cement Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Isabella County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beal City in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 2020FloodBeal City$100,000A few buildings were flooded in Mt. Pleasant.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindBeal City$100,000A dozen reports of trees down across area roads were received.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBeal City$20,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBeal City$10,000Isabella county central dispatch reported that several 10-14 inch diameter trees were blown down near Beal City. One inch diameter hail was also reported.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBeal City$10,000The Isabella county road commission reported that multiple trees were blown down on Winn road just south of M-20.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindBeal City$10,000A few trees were blown down in Beal City.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBeal City$5,000The public reported that the north side of a barn was blown out by strong winds. The east facing doors of the barn were also blown out.
June 2002HailBeal City$5,000An isolated severe thunderstorm developed over Lake Isabella in Isabella county during the early afternoon hours, and local area law enforcement reported one and three quarters inch hail with the storm.
September 2010HailBeal City-Three quarters to one inch diameter hail was reported in Beal City and also near Rosebush.

Every storm recorded in Isabella 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
Weidman3.4 miles15
Two Rivers3.8 miles15
Deerfield Center4.9 miles15
Lake Isabella5.0 miles15
Woods6.1 miles12
Drew6.3 miles12
Horr7.4 miles12
Rosebush7.7 miles15

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 Beal CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1907901The 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 620813. 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.