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Allen Park, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Allen Park City. It lies in ZIP code area 48101. It stands on Reeck Drain. The Survey maps it on the Dearborn quadrangle. 28,638 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Allen Park within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Allen Park grew from 28,210 to 28,638 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
201028,210
202028,638+428 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

66 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Allen Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 8 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 use32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1

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 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYANDOTTE FD 0000619 - 2019
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEARBORN FD 0010923 - 2018
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHGATE FD 1903240 - 2019
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005833 - 2019
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005702 - 2019
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEN PARK FD 0002267 - 2019
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0006290 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Allen Park: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Calcium, Salt, Halite. 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
Detroit MineSaltProducer
Detroit Salt MineHaliteProducer1895, 1910
Wr Grace Zonolite DivVermiculiteProducer
Detroit Lime Co Calcining PlantCalciumProducer
Ford Clay PitClayProducer
Ford Clay Pit and MineClayPast Producer
River Rouge LimekilnCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allen Park in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindAllen Park3 hurt, $755,000no account filed
July 1998LightningAllen Park$200,000Two homes burned after being struck by lightning.
December 1998Thunderstorm WindAllen Park$70,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindAllen Park$12,000A trained spotter reported trees down, with one on a garage. Damages to the garage were estimated at roughly $12K.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAllen Park$12,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAllen Park$3,000Large trees reported blown down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindAllen Park$3,000Gazebo destroyed.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindAllen Park$1,000Moderate size trees and wires down. Shingles blown off a roof.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAllen Park-Large tree blown on house.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindAllen Park-Six inch diameter tree limbs and wires down, along with shingles blow off a roof.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindAllen Park-One to two foot diameter tree blown down onto the road.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindAllen Park-Large tree limb reported down.
July 2011Heavy RainAllen Park-Estimated 2 inches of rain fell in a short period, causing a foot of water covering the roads near the intersection of Reeck and Goddard.
July 2010FloodAllen Park-Two and half to three inches of rain fell in 2 hours, resulting in flooding. Six to eight inches of water was reported on some side streets, making them impassable.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindAllen Park-A trained spotter reported a tree 16 inches in diameter down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAllen Park-A tree and power lines were reported blown down.
March 2004LightningAllen Park-Lightning struck and damaged a house in the 14000 block of South Yost. According to Fire Department officials, the lightning hit the chimney and traveled down through the bathroom. The molding and ceramic tile were blown off the bathroom wall, and all of the circuit breakers in the house were knocked out.
July 2023HailAllen Park-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAllen Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Lincoln Park1.8 miles20
Melvindale2.6 miles20
Southgate3.1 miles19
Hand3.3 miles20
Taylor3.3 miles16
Greenfield Village3.4 miles20
Taylor Center3.5 miles16
Ecorse3.6 miles19

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 Allen ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q795403The 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 619983. 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.