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Bloomfield, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Birmingham City. It lies in ZIP code area 48009. It stands on Sunken Bridge Drain. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham quadrangle.

Bloomfield within Oakland County

On record in Bloomfield

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

31 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield between 2018 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 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 use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0009725 - 2018
25 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERKLEY DPS 0010750 - 2019
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0009445 - 2019
13 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0008978 - 2018
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROYAL OAK FD 0003739 - 2019
11 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKLIN-BINGHAM FD 0000327 - 2019
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland 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 Bloomfield: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Bigelow Clay Prod Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Daniels Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindWest Bloomfield$2,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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
Beverly Hills1.1 miles17
Birmingham1.3 miles17
Charing Cross2.4 miles17
Bingham Farms2.6 miles21
Lathrup Village2.9 miles21
Bloomfield Hills3.2 miles17
Berkley3.6 miles17
Franklin4.0 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 621614. 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.