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Byron, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Burns Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48418. It stands on South Branch Shiawassee River. The Survey maps it on the Byron quadrangle. 545 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Byron within Shiawassee County

On record in Byron

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Byron fell from 581 to 545 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
2010581
2020545-36 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Byron between 2018 and 2020, burning about 40 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 use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
18 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000058 - 2019
30 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000043 - 2019
13 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000209 - 2018
1 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOWELL AREA FD 0000467 - 2018
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000122 - 2019
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARGENTINE TWP FIRE\RESCUE 0000152 - 2018
2 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURNS TOWNSHIP FD 0000014 - 2019
4 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesVERNON TOWNSHIP FD 0000013 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shiawassee 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 Byron: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Fred Mccann Clay PitClayPast Producer
Fuoss Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shiawassee County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Byron in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 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
May 2007Thunderstorm WindByron$25,000TV media reported trees down, with at least one falling through a home.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindByron$10,000Roof peeled of gymnasium.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindByron$4,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindByron-At least 4 large trees blown down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindByron-A large tree fell onto a house in Byron.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindByron-Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindByron-Trees reported down, including one down on a car.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindByron-Numerous trees were reported blown down across southern Shiawassee county.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindByron-A tree was reported blown down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindByron-Large trees and tree limbs reported blown down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindByron-A 3 foot diameter tree was reported down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindByron-A large tree was reported blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindByron-Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindByron-Law enforcement reported a large tree blown down.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindByron-Numerous tree limbs and a few power lines were downed.
May 2011HailByron-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindByron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shiawassee 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
Union Plains3.7 miles13
Durand6.5 miles13
Bancroft7.4 miles13
Newburg8.9 miles13
Antrim Center9.0 miles13
Vernon9.2 miles13
Shiawasseetown10.3 miles13
Lennon11.2 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 ByronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666037The 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 622408. 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.