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Farmington Hills, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Farmington Hills City. It lies in ZIP code area 48334. It stands on Seeley Drain. The Survey maps it on the Northville quadrangle. 83,986 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Farmington Hills within Oakland County

On record in Farmington Hills

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Farmington Hills grew from 79,740 to 83,986 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
201079,740
202083,986+4,246 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

25 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Farmington Hills between 2018 and 2020, burning about 24 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
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019
11 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019
9 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019
11 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKLIN-BINGHAM FD 0000327 - 2019
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006927 - 2019
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0007502 - 2018
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Farmington Hills: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Bigelow Clay Prod Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington Hills in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindFarmington Hills$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew over a tree and damaged the roofs of two buildings, including the Old Orchard Theater, at the intersection of Orchard Lake Road and 12-mile Road.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindFarmington Hills$1,000About 6,000 people were without power after strong winds blew down power lines.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFarmington Hills-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
Quakertown0.1 miles20
Farmington1.4 miles20
Briarwood Senior Housing1.9 miles20
Farmington Acres2.8 miles20
North Farmington2.9 miles22
Wood Creek Farms3.0 miles21
Clarenceville3.3 miles20
Franklin4.6 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 Farmington HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q989919The 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 1616988. 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.