Beaverton, Michigan
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Beaverton City. It lies in ZIP code area 48612. It stands on Cedar River. The Survey maps it on the Gladwin quadrangle. 1,145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBeaverton grew from 1,071 to 1,145 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,071 | |
| 2020 | 1,145 | +74 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Gladwin quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Midland quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
41 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Beaverton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 June 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 June 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BEAVERTON AREA FD 0000262 - 2018 |
| 12 June 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 1995 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | OIL WELL-GLADWIN 13 |
| 24 May 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaverton in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | $55,000 | Many large trees were downed, some of them onto homes. Power was out in much of the area. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | $12,500 | Report of wires downed and a tree on a house in Beaverton via emergency manager. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | $9,000 | Multiple trees and large limbs were downed in Beaverton and other nearby portions of southern Gladwin County. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | $2,000 | Two large trees blown down between Dale and Gurnsey Roads. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | $1,000 | Powerline downed on M-18 near Beaverton. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | - | Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in downed trees and powerlines. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | - | A tree and numerous utility lines were downed. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | - | Trees down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | - | A large tree and power lines were blown down across Lyle Rd. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Beaverton | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Beaverton | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverton | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Beaverton | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dale | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Lyle | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Gladwin | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Billings | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Winegars | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Lockwood Beach | 8.4 miles | 10 | |
| White Star | 9.3 miles | 10 | |
| Wooden Shoe Village | 9.5 miles | 10 |
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 Beaverton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2679639 | The 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 620961. 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.
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.





