Highland Park, Michigan
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Highland Park City. It lies in ZIP code area 48203. The Survey maps it on the Highland Park quadrangle. 8,977 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 636 feet above sea level.
On record in Highland Park
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 9 records
Highland Park Plant, Ford Motor CompanyNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973
First United Methodist Churchlisted 1982
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Churchlisted 1982
Highland Heights-Stevens` Subdivision Historic Districtlisted 1988
Highland Park General Hospitallisted 1985
Highland Park Presbyterian Churchlisted 1982
Medbury`s-Grove Lawn Subdivisions Historic Districtlisted 1988
Palmer Park Boulevard Apartments Districtlisted 1992
Trinity United Methodist Churchlisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresHighland Park fell from 11,776 to 8,977 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11,776 | |
| 2020 | 8,977 | -2,799 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 20 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 Detroit quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:31680
- 1940 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
165 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Highland Park between 2018 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 24 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 | 72 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 41 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0032226 - 2019 |
| 8 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0032107 - 2019 |
| 7 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0033020 - 2018 |
| 6 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0032843 - 2018 |
| 3 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0031432 - 2019 |
| 3 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0031469 - 2019 |
| 28 September 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0035675 - 2018 |
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0034689 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Park in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 91 injuries. 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 2006 | Lightning | Highland Park | 1 killed, 1 hurt | A couple was struck by lightning after taking shelter from the rain under a tree at 2301 EST in Krainz Park near East Hildale and Justine on Detroit's east side. The pair was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where the 44 year old woman was later pronounced dead. The 2nd person, a 46 year old male, survived but was initially in temporary serious condition at the hospital. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland Park | 1 killed | A man was killed due to a fallen wire. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F2) | Highland Park | 90 hurt, $90,000,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland Park | $50,000 | Trees reported down. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Highland Park | $20,000 | Standing water on Interstate 75 throughout Detroit, cars stranded. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland Park | $15,000 | Several trees were downed in the Palmer Woods subdivision on the north side of Detroit. A large tree was downed across the southbound lanes of Woodward Avenue (M-1) north of Seven Mile Road, blocking traffic for two hours. |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Highland Park | - | The Michigan Department of Transportation reporting flooding closing sections of I-94 and I-75. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland Park | - | Large tree was blown down onto a car at Detroit Golf Club. |
| September 2021 | Flood | Highland Park | - | Flooding reported at 6 mile road and I-75 with cars stalled under the overpass. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland Park | - | Numerous trees reported down. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland Park | - | Trees reported down. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland Park | - | Large tree uprooted. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland Park | - | A large tree was reported blown down onto a house. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Highland Park | - | Several downed trees on the west side of Detroit. |
| September 2022 | Hail | Highland Park | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | Highland Park | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Highland Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Highland Park | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamtramck | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| Detroit | 5.8 miles | 22 | |
| Dearborn | 7.1 miles | 20 | |
| Fort Wayne | 7.3 miles | 22 | |
| Oak | 7.5 miles | 21 | |
| Delray | 7.6 miles | 22 | |
| Conners Creek | 7.9 miles | 16 | |
| Grosse Pointe Park | 8.7 miles | 19 |
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 Highland Park | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1144544 | 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 628251. 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.












