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Birch Run, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Birch Run Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48415. It stands on Runnel Drain. The Survey maps it on the Birch Run North quadrangle. 1,525 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Birch Run within Saginaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Birch Run fell from 1,555 to 1,525 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
20101,555
20201,525-30 (-2%)

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

24 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Birch Run between 2004 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 4 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 use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 178 - 2020
13 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 316 - 2018
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 270 - 2018
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 275 - 2020
24 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 301 - 2019
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKENMUTH FD 73 - 2018
1 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLIO AREA FD 136 - 2020
30 June 2020Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYMOUTH FD 0000110 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birch Run in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2015Tornado (EF0)Birch Run2 hurt, $50,000A tornado touched down just west of Pine Ridge RV Campground in far southeast Saginaw county and tracked generally east along Birch Run Road, lifting near Mcpherson Road in Tuscola County 2 miles south of Millington. Trees were blown down and shingles were observed off houses. The tornado peaked in intensity near Buell and Belsay Roads, with estimated wind speeds up to 115 mph. Major structure damage occurred to one house, with another home suffering damage to roof and wall. Two minor injuries occurred at the campground. The total path length of the tornado ended up being around 11.2 miles, with 2.4 miles occurring in Saginaw County.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBirch Run$125,000no account filed
October 2016Thunderstorm WindBirch Run$3,000Five trees were reported blown down, with one falling on a house. Power lines were also reported down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBirch Run-Tree limb reported down on road.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBirch Run-Law enforcement reported a few trees down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindBirch Run-Local law enforcement reported a tree blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBirch Run-A trained spotter reported tree limbs down.
September 2021HailBirch Run-no account filed
April 2006HailBirch Run-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBirch Run-no account filed
June 1995HailBirch Run-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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
Winter's Motor Court1.8 miles16
Morseville3.9 miles14
Taymouth4.3 miles14
Burnt5.9 miles14
Burt6.0 miles14
Cassbridge (historical)6.3 miles16
Frankenmuth6.3 miles10
Fosters7.3 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 Birch RunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1439363The 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 621416. 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.