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Boon, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Boon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49618. The Survey maps it on the Boon quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,378 feet above sea level.

Boon within Wexford County

Population over time

2 figures

Boon fell from 167 to 90 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
2010167
202090-77 (-46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Boon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
5 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 03
1 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHARING TOWNSHIP FD 69 - 2020
20 July 1998Debris and open burning15 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestHOXEYUILLE
13 July 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National Forest21 1/2
1 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSELMA TOWNSHIP FD 0000044 - 2018
23 June 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestRAYHILL
1 June 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestHARRIETTA LINE
1 June 1997Smoking2.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestWOODWARD PINES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wexford County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Boon: 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Fellers' Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
R. W. Meyer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of Michigan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wexford County Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wexford 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
Millersville2.4 miles12
Harrietta5.3 miles12
Meauwataka5.5 miles12
Axin6.2 miles13
Benson7.9 miles12
Hoxeyville8.9 miles14
Yuma9.0 miles12
Mesick9.9 miles12

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 BoonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22086086The 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 1619282. 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.