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Berrien Springs, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Oronoko Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49103. It lies near Pardee Island. The Survey maps it on the Berrien Springs quadrangle. 1,910 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Berrien Springs within Berrien County

On record in Berrien Springs

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Berrien Springs grew from 1,800 to 1,910 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
20101,800
20201,910+110 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

24 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Berrien Springs between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 82 - 2020
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 81 - 2020
26 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 97 - 2019
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERRIEN SPRINGS-ORONOKO FD 0000127 - 2019
28 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 78 - 2020
23 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 76 - 2020
8 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 46 - 2020
7 April 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEAU CLAIRE FD 21 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Berrien Springs: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dunaetz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yerington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berrien Springs in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBerrien Springs-Trees and power lines blown down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBerrien Springs-Winds in excess of 60 mph were reported in Berrien Springs downed numerous trees and power lines.
April 1994HailBerrien Springs-no account filed
April 1994HailBerrien Springs-no account filed

Every storm 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
Pennellwood1.4 miles16
River Spring Estates1.7 miles16
Berrien Center3.4 miles16
Eau Claire3.4 miles16
Arden3.9 miles15
Fairland4.4 miles16
Hartman4.8 miles10
Hinchman5.0 miles15

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 Berrien SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2207190The 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 621166. 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.

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.