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Boyne Falls, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Boyne Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49713. It stands on Schoolhouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Boyne Falls quadrangle. 358 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Boyne Falls within Charlevoix County

Population over time

2 figures

Boyne Falls grew from 294 to 358 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
2010294
2020358+64 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Boyne Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 71 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
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2006Debris and open burning1.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 June 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2003Equipment and vehicle use4.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2005Debris and open burning15 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlevoix 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 Boyne Falls: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Northern Brick Co Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Charlevoix County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyne Falls in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 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 1999Thunderstorm WindBoyne Falls-Trees and power lines down
September 1998Thunderstorm WindBoyne Falls-Trees uprooted and/or snapped off across the city.
May 2008HailBoyne Falls-no account filed
August 2004HailBoyne Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charlevoix 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
Boyne City6.2 miles13
Walloon Lake6.8 miles14
Clarion7.6 miles14
Wildwood8.1 miles12
Advance9.3 miles13
East Jordan11.0 miles13
Zenith Heights11.4 miles12
Horton Bay11.8 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 Boyne FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2332679The 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 621827. 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.