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Bronson, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bronson City. It lies in ZIP code area 49028. The Survey maps it on the Bronson South quadrangle. 2,307 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Bronson within Branch County

Population over time

2 figures

Bronson fell from 2,349 to 2,307 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
20102,349
20202,307-42 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bronson between 2018 and 2019, burning about 7 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 use3
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
1 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRONSON FD 0000103 - 2019
26 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRONSON FD 0000094 - 2019
26 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKELAND VFD 0018051 - 2018
17 March 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRONSON FD 0000075 - 2018
27 February 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRONSON FD 0000073 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Branch County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronson in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2013: 17 thunderstorm wind, 9 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
April 1996HailBronson$1,000,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBronson$10,000Emergency management officials reported several trees and some power lines down in the Burr Oak area.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindBronson$5,000A thunderstorm wind gusts of nearly 60 mph caused damage to a house roof in Bronson.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBronson-Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto US 12.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBronson-Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto power lines.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindBronson-Emergency management officials reported a tree down across a road southwest of Bronson.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBronson-Emergency management officials reported several trees down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBronson-Emergency management officials reported numerous trees down in the area.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBronson-Trees were reported blown down in Bronson, Batavia and Coldwater.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindBronson-Law enforcement reported large tree limbs down just northeast of Bronson.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBronson-Law enforcement reported large trees down southeast of Bronson.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBronson-Law enforcement reported trees down in Bronson.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindBronson-Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBronson-Roofs blown off two pole barns. Large grain bin moved 1/4 mile by wind. Trees down and some uprooted.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBronson-Trees and power lines down.
June 2006HailBronson-no account filed
September 2005HailBronson-no account filed
August 2003HailBronson-no account filed
August 2003HailBronson-no account filed
August 2003HailBronson-no account filed
August 2003HailBronson-no account filed
August 1998HailBronson-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBronson-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBronson-no account filed
September 1996HailBronson-no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindBronson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Branch 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
Hatmaker4.2 miles9
Matteson4.8 miles9
Gilead5.3 miles10
Batavia5.8 miles10
Batavia Center6.2 miles10
Bethel7.0 miles9
Lockwood7.8 miles10
East Gilead8.6 miles9

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 BronsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q927974The 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 622022. 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.