Grosse Pointe, Michigan
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grosse Pointe City. It lies in ZIP code area 48230. The Survey maps it on the Grosse Pointe quadrangle. 5,678 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 587 feet above sea level.
On record in Grosse Pointe
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
- Cadieux Schoollisted 2023
- Grace Ingersoll McGraw Houselisted 2023
Population over time
3 figuresGrosse Pointe grew from 5,570 to 5,678 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5,570 | |
| 2010 | 5,421 | -149 (-3%) |
| 2020 | 5,678 | +257 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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 Grosse Pointe quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1905 USGS Grossepoint quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Grosse Pointe quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Grosse Pointe quadrangle1:31680
- 1940 USGS Grosse Pointe quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Grosse Pointe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Grosse Pointe quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Lake St. Clair South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
58 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Grosse Pointe between 2018 and 2020, burning about 57 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0034676 - 2019 |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0034284 - 2019 |
| 22 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0034155 - 2019 |
| 6 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0028032 - 2019 |
| 6 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0027928 - 2019 |
| 4 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0027607 - 2019 |
| 30 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0030888 - 2019 |
| 30 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grosse Pointe in 2 storm reports in 1994: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Hail | Grosse Pointe | - | Golf ball-size hail covered the ground. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Grosse Pointe | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grosse Pointe Park | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Grosse Pointe Farms | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| Conners Creek | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Harper Woods | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Grosse Pointe Shores | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Grosse Pointe Woods | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Hamtramck | 7.3 miles | 20 | |
| Detroit | 8.0 miles | 22 |
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 Grosse Pointe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1869357 | 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 627461. 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.










