Breckenridge, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wheeler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48615. The Survey maps it on the Breckenridge quadrangle. 1,238 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBreckenridge fell from 1,328 to 1,238 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 | 1,328 | |
| 2020 | 1,238 | -90 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1934 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Merrill quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midland quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Breckenridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Alma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Breckenridge in 2019, burning about 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRECKENRIDGE-WHEELER FD 0000168 - 2019 |
| 28 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRECKENRIDGE-WHEELER FD 0000194 - 2019 |
| 25 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRECKENRIDGE-WHEELER FD 0000081 - 2019 |
| 25 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MID-MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FD 0000116 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Breckenridge in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Breckenridge | $20,000 | Three trees were blown down and one fell on a house. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Breckenridge | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down near Breckenridge. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Breckenridge | $10,000 | A trained spotter reported large hail in Breckenridge. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Breckenridge | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Breckenridge | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Breckenridge | - | A few trees and power lines were blown down across northeast Gratiot county, near Breckenridge. |
| April 2008 | Heavy Rain | Breckenridge | - | Heavy rain occurred in Breckenridge, resulting in water covering many fields. Several homes had standing water in their yards and there were several reports of flooded basements. The storm total rainfall causing this minor flooding was one and sixty six hundredths of an inch, ending at 6:40 a.m. on April the first. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Breckenridge | - | Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by a trained spotter just north of Breckenridge. The spotter reported that the hail occurred for five minutes. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Breckenridge | - | This F0 also resulted in no damage along it's path near Breckenridge. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Breckenridge | - | 3/4" to 7/8" diameter hail was observed in Breckenridge. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheeler | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| North Wheeler | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Langport | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Rathbone | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Beebe | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Louis | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Edgewood | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Sickles | 9.1 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 Breckenridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q904338 | 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 621913. 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.







