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Brownlee Park, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Emmett Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49014. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Battle Creek quadrangle. 2,021 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Brownlee Park within Calhoun County

Population over time

3 figures

Brownlee Park fell from 2,588 to 2,021 between 2000 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
20002,588
20102,108-480 (-19%)
20202,021-87 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

71 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Brownlee Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 9 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 use30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural9
Smoking6
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 01205 - 2019
22 September 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00971 - 2020
21 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05331 - 2018
13 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05179 - 2018
8 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMETT TOWNSHIP DPS 00986 - 2019
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 05036 - 2019
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATTLE CREEK FD 03770 - 2018
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPENNFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 00600 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Brownlee Park: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Calhoun Co Pit Bill Smith S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Calhoun County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hoffman Brothers Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Huntington Dredge & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rays Aggregates CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownlee Park in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBrownlee Park$50,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down three miles east of Battle Creek by what a trained spotter estimated to be peak wind gusts up to 60 mph. A Calhoun county official reported that a tree and power lines were blown down onto a house three miles east northeast of Battle Creek. Several trees and power lines were also blown down further east of downtown Battle Creek.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBrownlee Park-The public reported that a tree and several power lines were blown down near Brownlee.
November 2013HailBrownlee Park-A trained spotter reported seven eighths inch diameter hail.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Verona Park1.0 miles18
Greenfield Park1.1 miles18
Battle Creek2.0 miles18
Maplehurst2.1 miles18
Wattles Park2.1 miles18
Sunrise Heights2.2 miles18
Orchard Park2.7 miles18
Morgan Corners3.3 miles18

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 Brownlee ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2169080The 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 622106. 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.