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Taylor, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Taylor City. It lies in ZIP code area 48180. It stands on Snow Drain. The Survey maps it on the Flat Rock NE quadrangle. 63,409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Taylor within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Taylor grew from 63,131 to 63,409 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
201063,131
202063,409+278 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 16 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

61 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Taylor between 2018 and 2020, burning about 65 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 use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2

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
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHGATE FD 1903240 - 2019
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINKSTER FD 193611 - 2019
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003182 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005833 - 2019
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005702 - 2019
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEN PARK FD 0002267 - 2019
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0006290 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Taylor: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cadillac Sands Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ford Clay PitClayProducer
Ford Clay Pit and MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylor in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1998LightningTaylor2 hurtno account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTaylor$4,500,000no account filed
June 2002Flash FloodTaylor$50,000The general public reported water covering a residential neighborhood about a foot deep. Water was estimated to have collected to a depth of 8 to 10 feet beneath overpasses. The Southland Mall closed after high water swamped parking lots and caused several vehicles to overturn.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindTaylor-A tree was reported blown down across a road.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindTaylor-Large tree limbs blown down.
September 2006HailTaylor-A thunderstorm dumped about 3 inches of rain in downtown Detroit. Several underpasses became flooded with several feet of water in the southwest part of the city. A few cars became stranded with motorists calling for help. No damages or injuries were reported.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindTaylor-A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2004Flash FloodTaylor-The intersection of Telegraph and I-94 was closed due to flooding.
June 2006HailTaylor-no account filed
June 2002HailTaylor-no account filed
May 2000HailTaylor-no account filed
May 1998HailTaylor-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindTaylor-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
Hand0.9 miles20
Taylor Center1.2 miles16
Sunnyside3.2 miles20
Allen Park3.3 miles20
Inkster4.3 miles20
Southgate4.4 miles19
Eloise4.8 miles20
Lincoln Park4.9 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.

Wikipedia article on TaylorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q988136The 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 1614609. 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.