Detroit, Michigan

• Open map evidence
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• Wayne County

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 12 of 300 shown

• Fisher and New Center BuildingsNational Historic Landmark · listed 1980
• Fisher BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1989
• Ford Piquette Avenue PlantNational Historic Landmark · listed 2002
• Fox Theater BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1985
• General Motors BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978
• Guardian BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1989
• McGregor Memorial Conference CenterNational Historic Landmark · listed 2010
• Parke-Davis Research LaboratoryNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
• Pewabic PotteryNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
• STE. CLAIRE (steamer)National Historic Landmark · listed 1979
• Wayne County CourthouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1975
• Alden Park Towerslisted 1985

Every listing in Wayne County

Detroit grew from 1,422 to 639,111 between 1820 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.

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 Detroit quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1918 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
• 1924 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
• 1934 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:31680
• 1940 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Detroit between 2018 and 2019, burning about 105 acres in total. 11 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fort Wayne
• Hamtramck
• Highland Park
• Delray
• Conners Creek
• Dearborn

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Detroit: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Detroit in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 27 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 2 deaths. 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.

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1617959. 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.