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Oakwood, Michigan

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brandon Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48462. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle.

Oakwood within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

8 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Oakwood between 2010 and 2019, burning about 14 acres in total. None 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000929 - 2019
30 September 2010Debris and open burning7.2 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER 01
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOXFORD FD 181049 - 2018
5 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000475 - 2018
23 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOXFORD FD 180758 - 2018
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000447 - 2018
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHADLEY TOWNSHIP FD 0719066 - 2019
29 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRANDON FD 0000436 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Oakwood: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Sibley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
American Aggregate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Granger Road PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford Pit No. 311Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakwood in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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 2021Flash FloodOakwood$2,000,000Roads and basements became flooding across southern Oakland county as 3 to 4 inches of rain was reported.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOakwood$325,000Power lines and trees reported down, with at least one landing on a house.
June 2010HailOakwood$10,000Hail was large enough to break windows.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOakwood$5,000Large tree limbs reported down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOakwood$2,000Large trees were reported blown down.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindOakwood-Powerlines reported down.
June 2010HailOakwood-no account filed
June 2010HailOakwood-no account filed
June 2010HailOakwood-no account filed
June 2010HailOakwood-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
Thomas2.2 miles12
Waterstone3.5 miles14
Perry Lake Heights4.4 miles13
Oxford4.8 miles14
Ortonville5.7 miles13
Brandon Gardens6.4 miles13
Walters7.2 miles14
Lake Orion7.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 633908. 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.