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Brutus, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Maple River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49706. The Survey maps it on the Alanson quadrangle. 202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Brutus within Emmet County

Population over time

2 figures

Brutus fell from 218 to 202 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
2010218
2020202-16 (-7%)

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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Brutus between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 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
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPELLSTON FD 097920 - 2019
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEMMET 08 - DAM FIRE
8 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALANSON-LITTLEFIELD FD 1835 - 2018
7 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2016Fireworksunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emmet County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brutus: 1 producer. All of them 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
Blumke Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brutus in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBrutus$9,000Trees were downed in Maple River Township.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBrutus$6,000Several trees and power lines were downed.
June 2008HailBrutus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emmet 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
Alanson3.4 miles14
Ayr3.8 miles14
Pellston4.1 miles11
Ponshewaing5.1 miles14
Oden5.4 miles14
Conway6.9 miles14
Van7.0 miles11
Pleasant View7.1 miles11

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 BrutusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22916709The 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 622148. 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.