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Hazel Park, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Hazel Park City. It lies in ZIP code area 48030. The Survey maps it on the Highland Park quadrangle. 14,983 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Hazel Park within Oakland County

Population over time

2 figures

Hazel Park fell from 16,422 to 14,983 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
201016,422
202014,983-1,439 (-9%)

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

98 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Hazel Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 16 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 burning27
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking2

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 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032226 - 2019
8 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032107 - 2019
7 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033020 - 2018
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON HEIGHTS FD 3248 - 2018
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031469 - 2019
27 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034689 - 2019
25 September 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034521 - 2019
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034326 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hazel Park: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Alliance Brick Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Carmet Co--Madison Hgts, Mich.TungstenProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

8 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazel Park in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindHazel Park$20,000Roof damage to a commercial and apartment building. Trees were uprooted and tree limbs downed as well.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindHazel Park$5,000Numerous trees and large tree limbs down along a 2 mile swath.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHazel Park$5,000Numerous large trees were observed blown down and uprooted.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHazel Park-Multiple tree limbs reported down.
July 2012HailHazel Park-no account filed
July 2012HailHazel Park-no account filed
July 2012HailHazel Park-no account filed
July 2012HailHazel Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oakland 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
Madison Heights1.6 miles20
Ferndale1.6 miles21
Pleasant Ridge2.1 miles21
Royal Oak2.8 miles21
Huntington Woods3.6 miles21
Oak Park4.2 miles21
Berkley5.1 miles17
Clawson5.4 miles17

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 Hazel ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q583354The 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 628016. 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.