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Bendon, Michigan

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Inland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49643. The Survey maps it on the Lake Ann quadrangle. 210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Bendon within Benzie County

Population over time

2 figures

Bendon grew from 208 to 210 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
2010208
2020210+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Bendon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 04 - LOST LAKE
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18401 - 2018
4 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENZIE 02
11 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resources18410 - 2018
10 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND TRAVERSE 05
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINLAND TWP FD 129 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benzie 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
Wallin5.1 miles14
Platte River5.5 miles15
Lake Ann6.3 miles15
Nessen City8.1 miles14
Thompsonville9.6 miles14
Honor9.8 miles10
Averytown (historical)11.1 miles10
Weldon12.8 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 BendonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17078852The 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 621089. 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.