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Beechwood, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Holland Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49424. It stands on Macatawa River. The Survey maps it on the Holland West quadrangle. 3,121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Beechwood within Ottawa County

On record in Beechwood

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Beechwood grew from 2,963 to 3,121 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
20002,963
20103,015+52 (+2%)
20203,121+106 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

32 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Beechwood between 2005 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3
Debris and open burning3

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19636 - 2019
21 September 2005Debris and open burning7.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19543 - 2019
16 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAAFSCHAP FD 2019424 - 2019
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND TOWNSHIP FD 20528 - 2020
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FD 0002036 - 2018
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FD 0002003 - 2018
4 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOLLAND FD 0001973 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa 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 Beechwood: 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
Zeeland Brick Co.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ottawa 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
Oaklawn Beechwood0.8 miles11
Holland1.1 miles11
Tasmas Corners1.7 miles10
Waverly2.1 miles11
Pine Creek2.2 miles10
Virginia Park3.2 miles10
Macatawa4.7 miles10
Noordeloos4.7 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 BeechwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2405678The 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 1867312. 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.