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Inkster, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Inkster City. It lies in ZIP code area 48141. It stands on Perrin Drain. The Survey maps it on the Inkster quadrangle. 26,088 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Inkster within Wayne County

On record in Inkster

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Inkster grew from 25,369 to 26,088 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
201025,369
202026,088+719 (+3%)

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

56 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Inkster between 2018 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 5 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 use27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural5
Debris and open burning5

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
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINKSTER FD 193611 - 2019
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003182 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005833 - 2019
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005702 - 2019
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0006290 - 2019
24 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0030198 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196253 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Inkster: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Cadillac Sands Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ford Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inkster in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 1999Thunderstorm WindInkster$20,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindInkster-Uprooted trees reported.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindInkster-Trees reported blown down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindInkster-Trees reported down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindInkster-A spotter estimated 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindInkster-A 24 inch diameter tree was reported snapped in half.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindInkster-A 10 inch diameter tree was reported down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindInkster-Numerous 4 to 6 inch diameter tree limbs down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindInkster-A trained spotter reported a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2009Flash FloodInkster-A foot of water covered several roads.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindInkster-Trees fell down on a house.
July 2016HailInkster-no account filed
July 2011HailInkster-no account filed
May 2003HailInkster-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindInkster-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
Eloise1.6 miles20
Sunnyside2.3 miles20
Garden City2.4 miles20
Hand3.4 miles20
Dearborn Heights3.5 miles20
Wayne4.1 miles20
Norwayne4.1 miles20
Taylor4.3 miles16

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 InksterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1663761The 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 629039. 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.