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Madison Heights, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Madison Heights City. It lies in ZIP code area 48071. The Survey maps it on the Highland Park quadrangle. 28,468 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Madison Heights within Oakland County

Population over time

2 figures

Madison Heights fell from 29,694 to 28,468 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
201029,694
202028,468-1,226 (-4%)

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

71 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Madison Heights between 2018 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 9 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 use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning14
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3

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
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON HEIGHTS FD 3248 - 2018
27 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0034689 - 2019
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON HEIGHTS FD 3451 - 2018
30 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031891 - 2018
29 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCENTER LINE DPS 0009969 - 2018
26 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0030433 - 2019
25 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERKLEY DPS 0010750 - 2019
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMADISON HEIGHTS FD 3094 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Madison Heights: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Tungsten, Tantalum, Iron. 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
Carmet Co--Madison Hgts, Mich.TungstenProducer
General Electric Co--Warren, Mich.TantalumPast Producer
Jones & Laughlin--Warren, Mich.IronProducer
Alliance Brick Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Warren Brick Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working 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
Hazel Park1.6 miles20
Royal Oak2.1 miles21
Pleasant Ridge2.2 miles21
Ferndale2.3 miles21
Huntington Woods3.3 miles21
Clawson3.9 miles17
Berkley4.3 miles17
Oak Park4.5 miles21

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 Madison HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1013267The 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 631311. 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.