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Farmington, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Farmington City. It lies in ZIP code area 48336. The Survey maps it on the Northville quadrangle. 11,597 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Farmington within Oakland County

On record in Farmington

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Farmington grew from 10,372 to 11,597 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
201010,372
202011,597+1,225 (+12%)

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

26 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Farmington between 2010 and 2020, burning about 23 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 use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
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
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
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0007106 - 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
2 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0007405 - 2019
19 July 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006169 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmington in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 32 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
December 1998Thunderstorm WindFarmington2 hurt, $60,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindFarmington$1,500,000Multiple trees blown down, blocking roadways. Trees blown down with property damage across parts of Farmington. The City of Farmington estimates property damage close to 1.5 million.
July 1997LightningFarmington$750,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington$50,000Wires reported down across Interstate 696.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFarmington$20,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFarmington$15,000The local newspaper reported 15 live wires and 5 trees down throughout the city of Farmington. A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFarmington$15,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFarmington$13,000no account filed
August 1998Flash FloodFarmington$10,000no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindFarmington$5,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington$1,000Large tree reported down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFarmington$1,000Large tree limbs reported down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Trees and power lines reported down across Farmington.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A gas station awning collapsed from the wind.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A 6 inch diameter tree was reported blown down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Multiple large tree limbs observed down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington-Large tree limbs were reported down.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Large tree was reported blown down.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Billboard reported blown down.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington-A large tree was reported down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A two foot diameter tree was blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington-Trees reported down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Trees reported blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Several large tree limbs blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Tree limbs, up to four inch in diameter, were reported down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Large tree limbs were reported down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A National Weather Service employee reported large tree branches down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A local television meteorologist reported tree limbs down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindFarmington-A trained spotter reported trees blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindFarmington-Trained spotters reported 10 inch diameter tree limbs blown down at Thirteen Mile and Middlebelt Roads in Farmington Hills.
May 2018HailFarmington-no account filed
July 2012HailNorth Farmington-no account filed
April 2009HailFarmington-no account filed
April 2008HailFarmington-no account filed
October 2008HailFarmington-no account filed
April 2003HailFarmington-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFarmington-no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindFarmington-no account filed
April 1994HailFarmington-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
Farmington Acres1.4 miles20
Farmington Hills1.4 miles20
Quakertown1.5 miles20
Briarwood Senior Housing2.2 miles20
Clarenceville2.4 miles20
Wood Creek Farms3.9 miles21
North Farmington4.4 miles22
Novi5.4 miles20

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 FarmingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1369658The 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 625837. 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.

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.