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Detroit, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Detroit Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62363. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Detroit within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

Detroit fell from 83 to 76 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
201083
202076-7 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Detroit in 2014, burning under an acre 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
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 March 2014Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-10
15 March 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-08

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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 Detroit: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Florence Plant No. 6 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pike County Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Detroit in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
December 2018Tornado (EF0)Detroit-This short lived tornado began 2 miles northwest of Detroit, IL, along 435th street. Damage was primarily confined to trees, but there was a home with roof damage and a large camper was blown on its side. Overall, the tornado was rated EF0 with a path length of 0.11 miles and a max path width of 25 yards. No injuries or deaths were reported with this tornado.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDetroit-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and power lines and caused some building damage in the Detroit area. One garage was destroyed by the winds.
May 2004HailDetroit-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail at the intersection of Highways 106 and 100 near Detroit.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Detroit-A small tornado downed trees northeast of Milton before crossing the Illinois River into Scott County.
April 2008HailDetroit-no account filed
April 2006HailDetroit-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDetroit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Florence3.5 miles13
Milton4.1 miles12
Time4.8 miles12
Sunny Hill5.0 miles13
Valley City6.1 miles13
Griggsville6.6 miles13
Pittsfield6.9 miles13
Montezuma7.0 miles12

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 DetroitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q648770The 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 407150. 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.