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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.

Garden City within Wayne County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Garden 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.

YearPeople Change
201027,692
202027,380-312 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

51 since 2018

Regional 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 use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural6
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINKSTER FD 193611 - 2019
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003182 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005833 - 2019
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0006290 - 2019
24 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0030198 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196253 - 2019
14 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0007061 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mijal PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ford Clay PitClayProducer
Lightweight Aggregate Corp PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGarden City$60,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGarden City$25,000The City of Inkster had several trees knock down by the strong winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGarden City$15,000A large tree limb fell through the roof of a home.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City$10,000Trees and powerlines reported down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGarden City$10,000A 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 2015Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000Trees and wires reported down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000Trees and wires reported down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000Trees and wires reported down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGarden City$500Gas station sign blown out.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Large trees limbs reported down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter reported down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Six inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Large tree limbs and power lines reported down.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGarden City-A six inch diameter tree blimb was reported blown down.
July 2011HailGarden City-no account filed
July 1998HailGarden City-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGarden City-no account filed
July 1997HailGarden City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Inkster2.4 miles20
Eloise2.8 miles20
Dearborn Heights3.2 miles20
Livonia3.2 miles20
Elm3.5 miles20
Norwayne3.6 miles20
Norton3.6 miles20
Westland3.7 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 Garden CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1013879The 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.