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Beecher, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mount Morris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48505. The Survey maps it on the Flint North quadrangle. 8,840 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Beecher within Genesee County

Population over time

3 figures

Beecher fell from 12,793 to 8,840 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
200012,793
201010,232-2,561 (-20%)
20208,840-1,392 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

36 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Beecher between 2018 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 6 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 use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning2
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
21 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGENESEE TWP FIRE STATION #1 0000200 - 2019
4 August 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGENESEE TWP FIRE STATION #1 0000163 - 2018
31 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0015716 - 2019
16 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0003256 - 2018
10 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLINT TOWNSHIP FD 1900566 - 2019
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0011589 - 2019
30 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 155 - 2020
3 July 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 138 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beecher in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2013Tornado (EF1)Beecher$100,000The tornado was rated an EF1 with maximum wind speeds of 105 mph. The maximum path width was 400 yards with a total path length of 2.3 miles. The tornado started at the southern end of Hasselbring Park and continued northeast to around the intersection of Harry Street and Humprey Avenue. The greatest damage occurred along Saginaw Street in between Holtslander and Downey Avenues. There was significant tree damage as well as damage to older commercial buildings of small to medium size.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindBeecher$3,000Several trees down on power lines.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBeecher$2,000Power lines reported down.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Large tree observed blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Several 6 inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 2013HailBeecher-no account filed
June 2009HailBeecher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
McGrew Junction1.7 miles16
Mount Morris2.0 miles16
Genesee4.3 miles16
Flint5.4 miles16
Pine Run6.1 miles16
Clio6.4 miles16
Rogersville6.6 miles16
Thetford Center6.8 miles16

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 BeecherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2391441The 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 1616987. 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.