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Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grosse Pointe Woods City. It lies in ZIP code area 48236. The Survey maps it on the Grosse Pointe quadrangle. 16,487 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Grosse Pointe Woods within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Grosse Pointe Woods grew from 16,135 to 16,487 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
201016,135
202016,487+352 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

67 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Grosse Pointe Woods between 2018 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 7 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 use25
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural7
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
8 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033121 - 2018
24 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034344 - 2019
22 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034155 - 2019
11 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEASTPOINTE FIRE/RESCUE 0003704 - 2019
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesEASTPOINTE FIRE/RESCUE 3373 - 2020
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR SHORES FD 4796 - 2019
6 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0027928 - 2019
30 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grosse Pointe Woods: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
Port Huron Salt Co.SaltPast 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
Harper Woods1.2 miles19
Grosse Pointe Shores1.7 miles19
Grosse Pointe Farms2.5 miles19
Grosse Pointe4.0 miles19
Grosse Pointe Park4.9 miles19
Conners Creek6.1 miles16
Hamtramck8.3 miles20
Highland Park10.4 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 Grosse Pointe WoodsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2729548The 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 627468. 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.