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Bruce Crossing, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Stannard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49912. It stands on House Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bruce Crossing quadrangle. 184 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Bruce Crossing within Ontonagon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bruce Crossing between 1994 and 2012, burning about 25 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
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
15 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 July 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresOttawa National ForestKEELER
1 May 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresOttawa National ForestHAIGHT
30 April 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOttawa National ForestKATIE CLICK
28 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreOttawa National ForestGERMAN ROAD
24 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOttawa National ForestMETOS
13 April 2012Debris and open burning1.7 acresOttawa National ForestSTRANGLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ontonagon County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruce Crossing in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 2011Thunderstorm WindBruce Crossing$2,000Trees reported down. Time was estimated from the radar.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBruce Crossing$1,000Report of a tree down along the side of Highway M-28 near Bruce Crossing. A delayed report with the time estimated from radar.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBruce Crossing-Dispatch reported a large tree down at US-45 and Himanka Hill Road.
May 2011HailBruce Crossing-There were multiple reports of estimated quarter-sized hail between Bruce Crossing and Trout Creek. Time of the reports was estimated from radar imagery.
April 2002HailBruce Crossing-3/4 inch diameter hail was reported.
June 2002HailBruce Crossing-Three quarter inch hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBruce Crossing-Six trees were blown down along highway U.S. 45.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBruce Crossing-Winds to 60 mph blew down numerous trees and power lines.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBruce Crossing-6 to 8 inch diameter apple trees down.
July 1999HailBruce Crossing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ontonagon 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
Gem2.2 miles13
Balitmore2.7 miles13
Paynesville3.4 miles12
North Paynesville3.9 miles12
Ewen5.4 miles11
Agate7.1 miles14
Craigsmere8.5 miles14
Paulding9.2 miles14

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 Bruce CrossingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4977321The 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 622123. 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.