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Clawson, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clawson City. It lies in ZIP code area 48017. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham quadrangle. 11,389 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Clawson within Oakland County

Population over time

2 figures

Clawson fell from 11,825 to 11,389 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
201011,825
202011,389-436 (-4%)

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

45 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Clawson between 2018 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
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
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON HEIGHTS FD 3248 - 2018
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON HEIGHTS FD 3451 - 2018
25 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERKLEY DPS 0010750 - 2019
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON HEIGHTS FD 3094 - 2018
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0009445 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON HEIGHTS FD 0002697 - 2019
15 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0009894 - 2018
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROYAL OAK FD 0003739 - 2019

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 Clawson: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Tungsten. 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
Carmet Co--Madison Hgts, Mich.TungstenProducer
Daniels Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clawson in 12 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 WindClawson$5,000Large tree limbs reported down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindClawson-A large tree fell onto a home.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindClawson-Three AC rooftop units at a shopping mall center were blown over.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindClawson-A tree was reported blown down, along with power lines.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindClawson-Roofing material blown off a Michaels Craft store.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindClawson-Four inch diameter tree branch down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindClawson-Eight inch diameter tree snapped at base.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindClawson-A 1 foot diameter tree was snapped.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindClawson-Trees and large limbs reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindClawson-Five inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
June 2019HailClawson-no account filed
July 2012HailClawson-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
Big Beaver2.3 miles18
Berkley2.9 miles17
Royal Oak3.0 miles21
Birmingham3.6 miles17
Huntington Woods3.8 miles21
Madison Heights3.9 miles20
Beverly Hills4.1 miles17
Pleasant Ridge4.3 miles21

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 ClawsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2470953The 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 623389. 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.