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Benton Heights, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1970. It stands in Benton Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49022. It stands on Blue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Benton Heights quadrangle. 3,652 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Benton Heights within Berrien County

Population over time

3 figures

Benton Heights fell from 5,458 to 3,652 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
20005,458
20104,084-1,374 (-25%)
20203,652-432 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

65 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Benton Heights between 2018 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 14 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 use35
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony2
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
7 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000455 - 2019
27 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST JOSEPH FD 228 - 2020
24 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 163 - 2020
7 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000399 - 2019
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON HARBOR FD 293 - 2020
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BERRIEN FIRE RESCUE 140 - 2020
22 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON HARBOR FD 238 - 2019
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBENTON CHARTER TWP FD 0000425 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien 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 Benton Heights: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Saint Joseph Terminal MillLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berrien 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
Benton Center1.6 miles11
Twelve Corners1.8 miles10
Orchard View Estates2.4 miles11
Mizpah Park2.7 miles10
Benton Harbor2.7 miles11
Higman Park3.3 miles10
Millburg3.5 miles10
Pearl Grange3.8 miles10

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 Benton HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2925277The 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 621145. 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.