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.
Population over time
2 figuresAllen 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 28,210 | |
| 2020 | 28,638 | +428 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
66 since 2018Regional 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 use | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WYANDOTTE FD 0000619 - 2019 |
| 5 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DEARBORN FD 0010923 - 2018 |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTHGATE FD 1903240 - 2019 |
| 26 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019 |
| 8 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0005833 - 2019 |
| 3 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0005702 - 2019 |
| 3 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEN PARK FD 0002267 - 2019 |
| 24 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0006290 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Mine | Salt | Producer | ||
| Detroit Salt Mine | Halite | Producer | 1895, 1910 | |
| Wr Grace Zonolite Div | Vermiculite | Producer | ||
| Detroit Lime Co Calcining Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Ford Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Ford Clay Pit and Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| River Rouge Limekiln | Calcium | Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | 3 hurt, $755,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Lightning | Allen Park | $200,000 | Two homes burned after being struck by lightning. |
| December 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | $70,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | $12,000 | A trained spotter reported trees down, with one on a garage. Damages to the garage were estimated at roughly $12K. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | $12,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | $3,000 | Large trees reported blown down. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | $3,000 | Gazebo destroyed. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | $1,000 | Moderate size trees and wires down. Shingles blown off a roof. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | - | Large tree blown on house. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | - | Six inch diameter tree limbs and wires down, along with shingles blow off a roof. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | - | One to two foot diameter tree blown down onto the road. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | - | Large tree limb reported down. |
| July 2011 | Heavy Rain | Allen 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 2010 | Flood | Allen 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | - | A trained spotter reported a tree 16 inches in diameter down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | - | A tree and power lines were reported blown down. |
| March 2004 | Lightning | Allen 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 2023 | Hail | Allen Park | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Allen Park | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Park | 1.8 miles | 20 | |
| Melvindale | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Southgate | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Hand | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| Taylor | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Greenfield Village | 3.4 miles | 20 | |
| Taylor Center | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Ecorse | 3.6 miles | 19 |
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 Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q795403 | The 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.












