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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.

Highland Park within Wayne County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Highland 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.

YearPeople Change
201011,776
20208,977-2,799 (-24%)

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

165 since 2018

Regional 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 burning72
Equipment and vehicle use41
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony8
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
6 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032843 - 2018
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031432 - 2019
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031469 - 2019
28 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0035675 - 2018
27 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034689 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006LightningHighland Park1 killed, 1 hurtA 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 2011Thunderstorm WindHighland Park1 killedA man was killed due to a fallen wire.
July 1997Tornado (F2)Highland Park90 hurt, $90,000,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHighland Park$50,000Trees reported down.
July 2011Flash FloodHighland Park$20,000Standing water on Interstate 75 throughout Detroit, cars stranded.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHighland Park$15,000Several 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 2024Flash FloodHighland Park-The Michigan Department of Transportation reporting flooding closing sections of I-94 and I-75.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHighland Park-Large tree was blown down onto a car at Detroit Golf Club.
September 2021FloodHighland Park-Flooding reported at 6 mile road and I-75 with cars stalled under the overpass.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHighland Park-Numerous trees reported down.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHighland Park-Trees reported down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindHighland Park-Large tree uprooted.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHighland Park-A large tree was reported blown down onto a house.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHighland Park-Several downed trees on the west side of Detroit.
September 2022HailHighland Park-no account filed
August 2020Flash FloodHighland Park-no account filed
August 2014HailHighland Park-no account filed
July 2012HailHighland Park-no account filed

Every storm 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
Hamtramck2.7 miles20
Detroit5.8 miles22
Dearborn7.1 miles20
Fort Wayne7.3 miles22
Oak7.5 miles21
Delray7.6 miles22
Conners Creek7.9 miles16
Grosse Pointe Park8.7 miles19

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 ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1144544The 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.