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Redford, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Redford Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48239. It stands on Bell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Redford quadrangle.

Redford within Wayne County

On record in Redford

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

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.

Fires near this place

62 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Redford between 2018 and 2020, burning about 60 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 use18
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2

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 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033175 - 2018
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032111 - 2019
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032054 - 2019
14 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0032979 - 2019
8 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0028276 - 2019
8 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0028243 - 2019
4 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0027677 - 2019
31 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0031002 - 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 Redford: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Beardsley Bros.Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Lightweight Aggregate Corp PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redford in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
July 1998Thunderstorm WindRedford$18,000,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindRedford$200,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindRedford$35,000A large tree was uprooted along Inkster Road in Livonia. The falling tree damaged two homes and a car, and destroyed a porch. In Redford, numerous trees were blown down.
June 1999Flash FloodRedford$25,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRedford$14,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRedford$2,000Power lines were reported down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindRedford$1,000Large tree limbs were downed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRedford-Large trees were reported down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindRedford-Large tree branches reported down.
July 2021Flash FloodRedford-A quick 1.75 to 2.5 inches of rain in thunderstorms lead to flash flooding on roadways.|Cars were stranded in flood waters at Davison and John C Lodge Freeways. All lanes of traffic along I-75 were flooded in the area of Holbrooke Avenue and 11 Mile Road. Flooding also caused several road closures along M-39 between Joy Road and Rotunda Drive.
July 2021FloodRedford-State Police and MDOT reported flooding on both lanes of I-94 and I-75. MODT also reported flooding across all lanes in both directions of M-39, and some of the lanes of SB I-75 after 7 mile, and EB I-96 at Grand River. Finally, some flooding observed on SB lanes of M-10 at M-8.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRedford-A large tree limb was reported down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRedford-Four trees were blown down near Beach-Daly and Plymouth Roads, and toward Schoolcraft Road.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindRedford-A spotter in Redford measured a 65 mph gust.
June 2007HailRedford-no account filed
May 2004HailRedford-no account filed
April 2003HailRedford-no account filed
May 2003HailRedford-no account filed
May 2003HailRedford-no account filed
June 1999HailRedford-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
Beech0.4 miles20
Norton1.1 miles20
Elm1.9 miles20
Livonia3.1 miles20
Oak3.3 miles21
Dearborn Heights3.4 miles20
Stark4.1 miles20
Garden City4.4 miles20

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 Q33474957The 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 1616975. 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.