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Buena Vista, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Buena Vista Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48601. The Survey maps it on the Saginaw quadrangle. 5,855 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Buena Vista within Saginaw County

Population over time

3 figures

Buena Vista fell from 7,845 to 5,855 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
20007,845
20106,816-1,029 (-13%)
20205,855-961 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

85 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Buena Vista between 2018 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 18 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 use37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Natural18
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRIDGEPORT FD 875 - 2019
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPAULDING TOWNSHIP FD 0000064 - 2019
15 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBUENA VISTA FD 1582 - 2018
1 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAGINAW FD 2855 - 2019
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAGINAW FD 2804 - 2019
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAGINAW FD 3119 - 2018
10 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBUENA VISTA FD 1407 - 2019
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSAGINAW FD 2840 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saginaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Buena Vista: 3 producers, 2 prospects, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Limestone, General, Clay, Calcium. 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
Carrollton Lime Kiln MillCalciumProducer
Stand.Mining Co.Clay Shale PitClayProspect
Wickes Eng'Ng Matls--Saginaw, Mich.GraphiteProducer
Day's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
E.Saginaw Clay SampleFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Saginaw MillLimestone, GeneralProducer
Saginaw Rock Prdts--Carrollton MillLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saginaw County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buena Vista in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2026Tornado (EF0)Buena Vista$100,000The tornado touched down just to the northwest of Roedel Rd and S Reimer Rd.|EF-0 damage occurred along the path of the tornado as it moved southeast. Two|barns were damaged and lost the majority of roofing. Some siding on an|adjacent house was also ripped off. Pine trees were uprooted and several|hardwood trees lost large limbs along the path. Peak winds estimated at 80 mph. The tornado lifted of in a field south of Roedel Rd between S Reimer Rd and Maple Rd after causing additional tree damage.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-Power lines reported down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-Large trees blown down.
August 2015HailBuena Vista-no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-no account filed
August 2010HailBuena Vista-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saginaw 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
Saginaw2.8 miles16
Carrollton3.1 miles16
Crow Island3.4 miles16
Zilwaukee4.0 miles16
Bridgeport4.3 miles16
Indiantown4.9 miles16
Frankentrost5.7 miles16
Kochville6.1 miles13

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 Buena VistaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3316569The 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 1867313. 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.