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North Farmington, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Bloomfield Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48322. The Survey maps it on the Walled Lake quadrangle.

North Farmington within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

15 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of North Farmington between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 2 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 use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Smoking1

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 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019
11 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRANKLIN-BINGHAM FD 0000327 - 2019
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 2019
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0003325 - 2019
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0004998 - 2019
9 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 201496 - 2020
8 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFARMINGTON HILLS FD 0004334 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Farmington: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bigelow Clay Prod Co Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Farmington in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington$50,000Wires reported down across Interstate 696.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington$1,000Large tree reported down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington-Large tree limbs were reported down.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington-A large tree was reported down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Farmington-Trees reported down.
July 2012HailNorth Farmington-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
Quakertown2.9 miles20
Farmington Hills2.9 miles20
Wood Creek Farms3.0 miles21
Briarwood Senior Housing3.8 miles20
Franklin3.9 miles21
Orchard Lake4.0 miles21
Farmington4.4 miles20
Wolverine Lake5.4 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122550513The 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 633572. 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.