Briarwood Senior Housing, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Farmington Hills City. It lies in ZIP code area 48336. The Survey maps it on the Redford quadrangle.

Briarwood Senior Housing within Oakland County

On record in Briarwood Senior Housing

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.

Royal Aldrich Houselisted 1994 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1905 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1912 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Redford quadrangle1:31680
1942 USGS Redford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Redford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Redford quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

27 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Briarwood Senior Housing between 2018 and 2020, burning about 26 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 use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Smoking	2

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
6 September 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019
11 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019
9 August 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019
25 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	REDFORD TOWNSHIP FD 1904182 - 2019
13 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0008978 - 2018
11 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKLIN-BINGHAM FD 0000327 - 2019
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007502 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland 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 Briarwood Senior Housing: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bigelow Clay Prod Co Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Farmington Hills	1.9 miles	20
Quakertown	2.0 miles	20
Wood Creek Farms	2.0 miles	21
Farmington	2.2 miles	20
Clarenceville	2.2 miles	20
Farmington Acres	3.4 miles	20
Franklin	3.4 miles	21
North Farmington	3.8 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2343604. 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.