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Clarkston, Michigan

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Village of Clarkston City. It lies in ZIP code area 48346. The Survey maps it on the Clarkston quadrangle. 928 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Clarkston within Oakland County

On record in Clarkston

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Clarkston grew from 882 to 928 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
2010882
2020928+46 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

21 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Clarkston between 2018 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 4 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 use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0010100 - 2019
20 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0002520 - 2019
20 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0002522 - 2019
26 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0002228 - 2019
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0006862 - 2019
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP FD 0001929 - 2019
15 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0000601 - 2018
8 June 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000615 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland 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 Clarkston: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Sebewaing Limekiln MillLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Andersonville Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gale Road Plant No. 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Koenig Fuel and Supply Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maceday Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Waterford Sanitary Landfill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkston in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClarkston$50,000Trees reported down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindClarkston$35,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindClarkston$10,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindClarkston$10,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindClarkston$6,000no account filed
September 2014Thunderstorm WindClarkston$1,000Large tree limb and power line reported down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A large tree fell onto a home along Olde Sturbridge Trail.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindClarkston-Trees reported down.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindClarkston-Large tree reported blown down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A couple of trees reported down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A 1.5 foot diameter tree was blown down across Waldon Road.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A four inch steel flag poll was snapped.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A National Weather Service employee reported trees down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A trained spotter reported a large section of a tree 1 foot in diameter down near the intersection of Sashabaw and Maybee Roads.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindClarkston-Several large limbs 4 to 6 inches in diameter were blown down by downburst winds.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Large tree limbs were also reported down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A trained spotter reported large tree limbs down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindClarkston-A NWS employee and trained spotter reported numerous large tree limbs down.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindClarkston-no account filed
June 2011HailClarkston-no account filed
July 2005HailClarkston-no account filed
June 2000HailClarkston-no account filed
May 2000HailClarkston-no 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
Waterford2.5 miles21
Springfield3.0 miles21
Jossman Acres3.4 miles13
Andersonville3.9 miles21
Drayton Plains4.2 miles21
Walters4.5 miles14
Clintonville4.6 miles21
Austin Corners5.9 miles17

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 ClarkstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1095872The 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 623384. 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.