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Breedsville, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49056. The Survey maps it on the Bangor quadrangle. 202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Breedsville within Van Buren County

Population over time

2 figures

Breedsville grew from 199 to 202 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
2010199
2020202+3 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

23 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Breedsville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural2
Debris and open burning2

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
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 325 - 2020
9 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 272 - 2018
29 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 260 - 2020
9 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 185 - 2020
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 169 - 2018
6 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBANGOR COMMUNITY FD 179 - 2020
6 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000055 - 2018
5 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIA TOWNSHIP FD 0000026 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren 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 Breedsville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Fish and Steward Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Breedsville in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 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 2016HailBreedsville$10,000The public reported that hail between ping pong ball and golf ball sized and up to one and three quarters inches in diameter fell in Breedsville.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBreedsville$4,000Three large trees were blown down along country road 681 between Bangor and Grand Junction.
April 2010HailBreedsville-A trained spotter three miles northeast of Bangor reported one inch diameter hail, which was corroborated with another report of one inch diameter hail ten minutes later in Breedsville.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBreedsville-A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 61 knots at the intersection of East Main street and 4th street.

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Bangor3.2 miles11
Grand Junction4.0 miles11
Berlamont5.2 miles13
Lacota5.5 miles11
West Bangor6.6 miles11
Bloomingdale6.6 miles13
Glendale6.9 miles13
Jericho Corners7.0 miles11

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 BreedsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1956523The 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 621915. 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.