Quakertown, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Farmington Hills City. It lies in ZIP code area 48331. It stands on Seeley Drain. The Survey maps it on the Northville quadrangle.

Quakertown within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1905 USGS Plymouth quadrangle1:62500
1905 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1912 USGS Wayne quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Northville quadrangle1:31680
1945 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Quakertown between 2018 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 3 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 use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0010098 - 2019
11 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0007167 - 2019
9 August 2019	Smoking	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FARMINGTON HILLS FD 0006209 - 2019
11 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	FRANKLIN-BINGHAM FD 0000327 - 2019
10 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0006927 - 2019
7 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007575 - 2018
6 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	SOUTHFIELD FD 0007502 - 2018
27 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 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 Quakertown: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bigelow Clay Prod Co Clay Pit	Fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Farmington Hills	0.1 miles	20
Farmington	1.5 miles	20
Briarwood Senior Housing	2.0 miles	20
Farmington Acres	2.9 miles	20
North Farmington	2.9 miles	22
Wood Creek Farms	3.0 miles	21
Clarenceville	3.4 miles	20
Franklin	4.5 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 635543. 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.