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.
Population over time
2 figuresBirch 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,555 | |
| 2020 | 1,525 | -30 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Saginaw quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Flint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Birch Run North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Flint quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 2004Regional 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 use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLIO AREA FD 178 - 2020 |
| 13 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 316 - 2018 |
| 9 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 270 - 2018 |
| 4 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 275 - 2020 |
| 24 July 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BIRCH RUN TOWNSHIP FD 301 - 2019 |
| 11 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRANKENMUTH FD 73 - 2018 |
| 1 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLIO AREA FD 136 - 2020 |
| 30 June 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYMOUTH FD 0000110 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Birch Run | 2 hurt, $50,000 | A 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Birch Run | $125,000 | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Birch Run | $3,000 | Five trees were reported blown down, with one falling on a house. Power lines were also reported down. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Birch Run | - | Tree limb reported down on road. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Birch Run | - | Law enforcement reported a few trees down. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Birch Run | - | Local law enforcement reported a tree blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Birch Run | - | A trained spotter reported tree limbs down. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Birch Run | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Birch Run | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Birch Run | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Birch Run | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter's Motor Court | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Morseville | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Taymouth | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Burnt | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Burt | 6.0 miles | 14 | |
| Cassbridge (historical) | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Frankenmuth | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Fosters | 7.3 miles | 16 |
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 Run | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1439363 | The 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.







