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Greenfield Village, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dearborn City. It lies in ZIP code area 48124. It stands on Lower River Rouge. The Survey maps it on the Dearborn quadrangle.

Greenfield Village within Wayne County

On record in Greenfield Village

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

85 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Greenfield Village between 2018 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. 13 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 use34
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural13
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
9 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033175 - 2018
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032111 - 2019
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032054 - 2019
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEARBORN FD 0010923 - 2018
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005833 - 2019
8 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0028276 - 2019
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEN PARK FD 0002267 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Greenfield Village: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Salt, Calcium, Halite. 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
Detroit Lime Co Calcining PlantCalciumProducer
Detroit MineSaltProducer
Detroit Salt MineHaliteProducer1895, 1910
Wr Grace Zonolite DivVermiculiteProducer
Clippert Brick and Tile Co. PitClayPast Producer
Ford Clay PitClayProducer
Ford Clay Pit and MineClayPast Producer

Every working 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
Dearborn2.8 miles20
Melvindale3.1 miles20
Allen Park3.4 miles20
Dearborn Heights3.4 miles20
Hand4.4 miles20
Lincoln Park4.5 miles20
Inkster4.6 miles20
Taylor5.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 627352. 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.