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East Highland, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Highland Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48356. It lies near Hubbels Island. The Survey maps it on the Highland quadrangle.

East Highland within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of East Highland between 2018 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
23 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0001444 - 2019
13 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 18579 - 2018
17 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH OAKLAND COUNTY FIRE AUTH 467 - 2018
31 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 19581 - 2019
9 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP FD 0000693 - 2019
26 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 20354 - 2020
27 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHLAND TOWNSHIP FD 0000209 - 2018
17 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 201009 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Highland: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lake Shore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Portable Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rose PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Highland in 10 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Highland2 hurtA tree landed onto two trucks located on South Duck Lake Road. Two men were injured and take to the hospital.
July 2014HailEast Highland$6,000,000no account filed
April 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Highland$3,000Tree reported blown down onto a car.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEast Highland$1,000Multiple trees were reported down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Highland-Several large trees reported down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Highland-Several trees blown down onto the road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Highland-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Highland-An NWS employee estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2014HailEast Highland-no account filed
July 2013HailEast Highland-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
Seven Harbors1.2 miles18
Highland2.7 miles18
White Lake2.7 miles18
Clyde3.0 miles18
Milford4.5 miles19
West Highland5.0 miles13
Hickory Ridge5.2 miles13
Oxbow5.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122554018The 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 625193. 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.