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Bridgman, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Bridgman City. It lies in ZIP code area 49106. It lies near Mount Edward. The Survey maps it on the Bridgman quadrangle. 2,096 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Bridgman within Berrien County

Population over time

2 figures

Bridgman fell from 2,291 to 2,096 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
20102,291
20202,096-195 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

13 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bridgman between 2018 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 335 - 2019
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEESAW TOWNSHIP FD 18-0039 - 2018
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0000201 - 2018
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 322 - 2018
12 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCHIKAMING FD 235 - 2019
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEESAW TOWNSHIP FD 18-0024 - 2018
22 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLINCOLN TOWNSHIP 98 - 2020
13 May 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLINCOLN TOWNSHIP 80 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bridgman: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bridgman Pit & Mill Manley BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bridgman Pit & Mill/Martin-MariettaSilicaProducer
Garage SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Gulliver-Peters SiteSilicaProducerSedimentary
North Bridgman PitSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
South Bridgman SiteSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgman in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 rip current, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 2001Rip CurrentBridgman1 killed13 year old girl drowned at Warren Dunes State Park. Police and park rangers believe girlwas caught in rip current near shore.
August 2001Rip CurrentBridgman1 killedA 17-year old male drowned while swimming in Lake Michigan at Warren Dunes State Park. Officials at the scene said that wave heights were up to six feet. A rip current apparently pulled him underwater.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindBridgman$5,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBridgman$1,000One large tree was downed and several large tree limbs were down near Red Arrow Highway.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBridgman-The public reported trees down or uprooted in the area.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBridgman-Law enforcement reported several trees down south of Bridgman.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBridgman-Trees were reported down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBridgman-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Bridgman.
July 1998HailBridgman-SHERIFF REPORT.
July 2017HailBridgman-no account filed
June 2014HailBridgman-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodBridgman-no account filed
April 1994HailBridgman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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
Livingston1.9 miles14
Jerico2.4 miles14
Rosemary Beach2.7 miles14
Waverland Beach3.1 miles14
Baroda Estates3.9 miles15
Baroda3.9 miles15
Tower Hill Shorelands4.0 miles14
Snow4.1 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 BridgmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2074992The 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 621967. 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.