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Dearborn, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dearborn City. It lies in ZIP code area 48126. The Survey maps it on the Dearborn quadrangle. 109,976 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Dearborn within Wayne County

On record in Dearborn

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Dearborn grew from 98,153 to 109,976 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
201098,153
2020109,976+11,823 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires near this place

122 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Dearborn between 2018 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 16 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
Debris and open burning45
Equipment and vehicle use43
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony4
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
9 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033175 - 2018
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032111 - 2019
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032054 - 2019
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEARBORN FD 0010923 - 2018
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031432 - 2019
28 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0035675 - 2018
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019
19 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033618 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Dearborn: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Detroit MineSaltProducer
Detroit Salt MineHaliteProducer1895, 1910
Wr Grace Zonolite DivVermiculiteProducer
Clippert Brick and Tile Co. PitClayPast Producer
Detroit Lime Co Calcining PlantCalciumProducer
Ford Clay Pit and MineClayPast Producer
River Rouge LimekilnCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dearborn in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDearborn$25,000A trained spotter reported very large tree limbs blown down on some cars and vans near Telegraph and Eureka.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindDearborn$22,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDearborn$20,000no account filed
May 1998LightningDearborn$5,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindDearborn$2,500Local Media reported several trees and large limbs were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDearborn$2,000A large tree was reported down, along with power lines.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDearborn-Trees reported down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDearborn-Multiple trees downed, uprooted, and snapped. Several large tree limbs downed as well with some falling onto a home.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDearborn-Large tree limbs blown down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindDearborn-Large tree limbs reported down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDearborn-Large tree limbs reported down.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindDearborn-A trained spotter reported a large tree snapped in half.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDearborn-A trained spotter estimated a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindDearborn-A trained spotter reported two large tree branches down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDearborn-A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDearborn-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDearborn-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDearborn-The local media reported wires down.
May 2007HailDearborn-no account filed
May 2005HailDearborn-no account filed
May 2004HailDearborn-no account filed
April 2001HailDearborn-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindDearborn-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindDearborn-no account filed
May 1997HailDearborn-no account filed
August 1996HailDearborn-no account filed
July 1994HailDearborn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Melvindale2.7 miles20
Greenfield Village2.8 miles20
Delray3.7 miles22
River Rouge4.0 miles20
Fort Wayne4.5 miles22
Allen Park4.8 miles20
Lincoln Park4.9 miles20
Oak5.1 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 DearbornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q430464The 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 624432. 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.