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Brethren, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Dickson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49619. It stands on Boswell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brethren quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Brethren within Manistee County

Population over time

2 figures

Brethren fell from 410 to 331 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
2010410
2020331-79 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Brethren between 1992 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDICKSON TOWNSHIP FD 0201914 - 2019
26 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestKERRY ROAD
15 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestTUNK PUNK
11 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestWHITE PINE
6 July 2003Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestSKIDMORE ROAD
5 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestBEAR CREEK #1
2 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestCOATES
7 June 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestNORTH BAKER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manistee 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
Kaleva4.8 miles9
Chief Lake5.4 miles9
Udell6.2 miles8
Wellston6.9 miles15
Maue Corners7.4 miles9
Norwalk8.0 miles9
Marilla8.6 miles13
Dublin9.8 miles15

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 BrethrenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16301216The 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 621929. 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.