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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.

Breckenridge within Gratiot County

Population over time

2 figures

Breckenridge 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,328
20201,238-90 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

4 since 2019

Regional 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 use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRECKENRIDGE-WHEELER FD 0000168 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRECKENRIDGE-WHEELER FD 0000194 - 2019
25 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRECKENRIDGE-WHEELER FD 0000081 - 2019
25 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMID-MICHIGAN COMMUNITY FD 0000116 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gratiot County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge$20,000Three trees were blown down and one fell on a house.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge$10,000Several trees were blown down near Breckenridge.
October 2006HailBreckenridge$10,000A trained spotter reported large hail in Breckenridge.
June 2005HailBreckenridge$10,000no account filed
June 2005HailBreckenridge$5,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBreckenridge-A few trees and power lines were blown down across northeast Gratiot county, near Breckenridge.
April 2008Heavy RainBreckenridge-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 2008HailBreckenridge-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 2006Tornado (F0)Breckenridge-This F0 also resulted in no damage along it's path near Breckenridge.
July 1999HailBreckenridge-3/4" to 7/8" diameter hail was observed in Breckenridge.

Every storm recorded in Gratiot 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
Wheeler2.0 miles12
North Wheeler4.7 miles12
Langport5.4 miles12
Rathbone5.5 miles12
Beebe6.3 miles14
Saint Louis7.0 miles14
Edgewood8.4 miles12
Sickles9.1 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 BreckenridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q904338The 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.