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.
Population over time
2 figuresBoyne 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 294 | |
| 2020 | 358 | +64 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Cheboygan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Boyne Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Petoskey quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Boyne Falls quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.3 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 June 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.2 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 May 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Brick Co Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boyne Falls | - | Trees and power lines down |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boyne Falls | - | Trees uprooted and/or snapped off across the city. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Boyne Falls | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Boyne Falls | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyne City | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Walloon Lake | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Clarion | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Wildwood | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| Advance | 9.3 miles | 13 | |
| East Jordan | 11.0 miles | 13 | |
| Zenith Heights | 11.4 miles | 12 | |
| Horton Bay | 11.8 miles | 12 |
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 Falls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2332679 | 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 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.




