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Burton, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Burton City. It lies in ZIP code area 48519. It stands on Pierson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Goodrich quadrangle. 29,715 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Burton within Genesee County

Population over time

2 figures

Burton fell from 29,999 to 29,715 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
201029,999
202029,715-284 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

42 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Burton between 2018 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 7 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 use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0016180 - 2019
4 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0015960 - 2019
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGRAND BLANC FD 12478 - 2019
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURTON CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0000266 - 2019
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURTON CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0000265 - 2019
10 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0014253 - 2019
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18269 - 2018
5 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF FLINT FD 0011589 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee 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 Burton: 1 past producer. 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
Kurtz Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burton in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 12 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 2008Thunderstorm WindBurton$600,000Trees and wired reported down, some on homes.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBurton$5,000A tree and several large limbs were downed.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBurton$4,000Trained spotters reported roof damage to a building near the intersection of Saginaw and Atherton Roads.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBurton$2,000Power line reported down.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBurton-Quarter size hail also reported.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBurton-Measured on private weather station.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindBurton-A spotter estimated a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBurton-Multiple large trees blown down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBurton-A trained spotter reported many tree branches down in the area and estimated wind gusts at 60 MPH.
February 2006Thunderstorm WindBurton-A tree 15 inches in diameter fell and siding was ripped from a house.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBurton-Several trees and large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2005HailBurton-A trained spotter also estimated a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindBurton-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts at 60 MPH.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBurton-A trained weather spotter estimated a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust, which damaged a home. A tree and several tree limbs were also reported down, along with siding off of an apartment on Lapeer and Belsay roads.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBurton-A trained weather spotter estimated a 80 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2004HailBurton-A trained weather spotter also measured a 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBurton-A telephone pole was snapped at the base.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBurton-A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindBurton-Large tree limbs and power poles reported blown down.
April 2008HailBurton-no account filed
July 2007HailBurton-no account filed
July 2007HailBurton-no account filed
July 2007HailBurton-no account filed
June 2006HailBurton-no account filed
June 2005HailBurton-no account filed
June 2004HailBurton-no account filed
May 2003HailBurton-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBurton-no account filed
August 2003HailBurton-no account filed
August 2003HailBurton-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBurton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Lapeer Heights1.3 miles16
Belsay2.2 miles16
Flint3.9 miles16
Whigville4.2 miles14
Grand Blanc5.0 miles14
Davison5.8 miles16
McGrew Junction5.8 miles16
Atlas6.1 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 BurtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1017105The 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 1675445. 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.