Garden City, Michigan
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Garden City City. It lies in ZIP code area 48135. The Survey maps it on the Inkster quadrangle. 27,380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.
On record in Garden City
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 1 record
Henry Ford Square Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresGarden City fell from 27,692 to 27,380 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 | 27,692 | |
| 2020 | 27,380 | -312 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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 Inkster quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Inkster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Inkster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Inkster quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Inkster quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
51 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 2018 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 6 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 | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | INKSTER FD 193611 - 2019 |
| 9 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROMULUS FD 0003182 - 2019 |
| 8 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0005833 - 2019 |
| 24 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0006290 - 2019 |
| 24 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0030198 - 2019 |
| 16 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019 |
| 15 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WESTLAND FD 196253 - 2019 |
| 14 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0007061 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Garden City: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mijal Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ford Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Lightweight Aggregate Corp Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $60,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $25,000 | The City of Inkster had several trees knock down by the strong winds. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $15,000 | A large tree limb fell through the roof of a home. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $10,000 | Trees and powerlines reported down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $10,000 | A newspaper reported that a large tree blew over onto a car in thunderstorm winds. The paper also reported numerous tree limbs and power lines down. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $2,000 | Trees and wires reported down. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $2,000 | Trees and wires reported down. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $2,000 | Trees and wires reported down. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $500 | Gas station sign blown out. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | Large trees limbs reported down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | Tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter reported down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | Six inch diameter tree limbs reported down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | Large tree limbs and power lines reported down. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | A six inch diameter tree blimb was reported blown down. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Garden City | - | 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.
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 Garden City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1013879 | 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 626632. 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.












