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North Branch, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in North Branch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48461. It stands on Gravel Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Branch quadrangle. 1,096 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

North Branch within Lapeer County

On record in North Branch

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

North Branch grew from 1,033 to 1,096 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
20101,033
20201,096+63 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of North Branch between 2015 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
12 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER 01
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 0000080 - 2020
12 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH BRANCH TOWNSHIP FD 0000021 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lapeer 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 North Branch: 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
Nolan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lapeer County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Branch in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 11 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2006LightningNorth Branch1 hurtA 27 year old male was struck by lightning while inside his home. The lightning struck just as he was closing an aluminum storm door that was blown open by the wind. It first hit his backyard and traveled up the porch, to the storm door, and through his body. He was barefoot at the time and the lightning knocked him to the floor in pain. He was unable to talk for awhile but refused to be transported to the hospital. His arm was swollen the following day and his joints remained stiff.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch$6,000Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch$3,000Power lines reported down.
August 2006LightningNorth Branch$2,500A local newspaper reported that lightning struck a home on Swaffer Rd, causing electrical problems. The family was shocked whenever they touched a grounded object. Firefighters contacted the American Red Cross and found the family of eight a place to stay until electricians could be contacted. Property damages were roughly estimated at around $2.5K.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch$1,000Central Dispatch reported that several trees and powerlines were blown down in North Branch by thunderstorm winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch-A tree was blown onto power line wires.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch-Trees reported down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch-Emergency Management reported multiple trees down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch-Power lines were reported blown down along M-90.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines blown down.
April 1994HailNorth Branch-Hail of 0.75-inch diameter fell in both Metamora and North branch. Thunderstorm winds gusts knocked down power lines in Imlay City.
April 2020HailNorth Branch-no account filed
July 2014HailNorth Branch-no account filed
April 2008HailNorth Branch-no account filed
June 2008HailNorth Branch-no account filed
July 2008HailNorth Branch-no account filed
June 2002HailNorth Branch-no account filed
June 2002HailNorth Branch-no account filed
July 2001HailNorth Branch-no account filed
August 2001HailNorth Branch-no account filed
August 2000HailNorth Branch-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindNorth Branch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lapeer 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
Clifford6.0 miles9
Kings Mill6.1 miles10
Five Lakes6.3 miles10
Barnes Lake6.4 miles10
Burnside6.5 miles10
Millers Lake7.6 miles10
Lum9.3 miles10
Goodland11.4 miles10

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 North BranchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2226826The 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 633486. 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.