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.
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
Royal Aldrich Houselisted 1994
Botsford-Graser Houselisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresFarmington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 79,740 | |
| 2020 | 83,986 | +4,246 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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 Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1912 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Northville quadrangle1:31680
- 1945 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 2018Regional 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 use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019 |
| 11 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019 |
| 9 August 2019 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019 |
| 11 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRANKLIN-BINGHAM FD 0000327 - 2019 |
| 10 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006927 - 2019 |
| 7 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018 |
| 6 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTHFIELD FD 0007502 - 2018 |
| 27 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bigelow Clay Prod Co Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Farmington Hills | $5,000 | Strong 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Farmington Hills | $1,000 | About 6,000 people were without power after strong winds blew down power lines. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Farmington Hills | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quakertown | 0.1 miles | 20 | |
| Farmington | 1.4 miles | 20 | |
| Briarwood Senior Housing | 1.9 miles | 20 | |
| Farmington Acres | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| North Farmington | 2.9 miles | 22 | |
| Wood Creek Farms | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Clarenceville | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| Franklin | 4.6 miles | 21 |
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 Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q989919 | The 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.











