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.
Population over time
2 figuresBronson 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,349 | |
| 2020 | 2,307 | -42 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Bronson South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2018Regional 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 use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRONSON FD 0000103 - 2019 |
| 26 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRONSON FD 0000094 - 2019 |
| 26 March 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LAKELAND VFD 0018051 - 2018 |
| 17 March 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRONSON FD 0000075 - 2018 |
| 27 February 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BRONSON FD 0000073 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Hail | Bronson | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | $10,000 | Emergency management officials reported several trees and some power lines down in the Burr Oak area. |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | $5,000 | A thunderstorm wind gusts of nearly 60 mph caused damage to a house roof in Bronson. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto US 12. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto power lines. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Emergency management officials reported a tree down across a road southwest of Bronson. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Emergency management officials reported several trees down. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Emergency management officials reported numerous trees down in the area. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Trees were reported blown down in Bronson, Batavia and Coldwater. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Law enforcement reported large tree limbs down just northeast of Bronson. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Law enforcement reported large trees down southeast of Bronson. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Law enforcement reported trees down in Bronson. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Law enforcement reported trees down. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Roofs blown off two pole barns. Large grain bin moved 1/4 mile by wind. Trees down and some uprooted. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Bronson | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bronson | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hatmaker | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Matteson | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Gilead | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Batavia | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Batavia Center | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Bethel | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Lockwood | 7.8 miles | 10 | |
| East Gilead | 8.6 miles | 9 |
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 Bronson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q927974 | The 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.



