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Burr Oak, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Burr Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49030. The Survey maps it on the Burr Oak quadrangle. 753 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Burr Oak within St. Joseph County

Population over time

2 figures

Burr Oak fell from 828 to 753 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
2010828
2020753-75 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Burr Oak in 2019, burning about 5 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 use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRONSON FD 0000103 - 2019
26 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRONSON FD 0000094 - 2019
7 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000029 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Joseph County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Burr Oak: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Cole Brothers Contractors PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cole Brothers Contractors PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Joseph County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burr Oak in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBurr Oak$15,000Huge tree down on power lines.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBurr Oak$5,000Several trees down in Burr Oak.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBurr Oak$5,000Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted in Burr Oak. Photos on Twitter.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBurr Oak-Reports were received through social media of trees and power lines down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBurr Oak-Six to eight inch diameter partially rotted tree limb downed.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBurr Oak-Law enforcement officials reported several trees down in Burr Oak.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBurr Oak-Law enforcement reported trees down in Burr Oak.

Every storm recorded in St. Joseph 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
Findley4.3 miles10
Fawn River4.7 miles10
Sturgis6.3 miles10
Colon7.7 miles10
Fairfax7.9 miles10
Nottawa8.5 miles11
Wasepi10.0 miles11
Sandy Beach11.6 miles15

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 Burr OakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1915906The 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 1624428. 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.