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Troy, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Troy City. It lies in ZIP code area 48098. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham quadrangle. 87,294 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Troy within Oakland County

On record in Troy

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Troy grew from 80,980 to 87,294 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
201080,980
202087,294+6,314 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

39 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Troy between 2018 and 2019, burning about 87 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSHELBY TOWNSHIP FD 0005784 - 2018
30 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0010507 - 2018
15 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0009894 - 2018
1 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCHESTER HILLS FD 0004453 - 2019
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0008320 - 2018
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0008245 - 2018
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCITY OF STERLING HEIGHTS FD 0008176 - 2018
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTROY FD 0002242 - 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 Troy: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Fries Tile Works' Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Macomb PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morgan Number 1 Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Underwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 7 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 2006LightningTroy1 hurt, $15,000One family member suffered minor injuries related directly to a lightning strike that created flying glass when the fireplace door exploded. There was no fire but the chimney was destroyed and the family room and kitchen were also damaged. Property damage was roughly estimated at $15K.
August 2003LightningTroy1 hurtAn 11 year old boy was struck by lightning on Garry Road. CPR was performed on the boy, who later recovered.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTroy$35,000no account filed
June 2006LightningTroy$30,000Lightning struck a home, sparking a full blown fire. The fire consumed the attached garage of the tri-level home and extended into the attic. Property damage was roughly estimated at $30K based on pictures included in the newspaper.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTroy$10,000Tree reported blown down onto a house.
August 2001LightningTroy$10,000Lightning struck the roof of an attached garage. Firefighters extinguished the fire and halted the spread into the main house.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindTroy$6,000Trees were downed in a subdivision off of South Boulevard.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTroy$5,000Wires reported down.
May 1999LightningTroy$3,000A lightning strike ignited a house fire in an attic.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindTroy$1,000About 6,000 people were without power after strong winds blew down power lines.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTroy-One foot diameter tree reported blown down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTroy-Large tree blown down onto power line.
September 2005LightningTroy-Lightning sparked a fire to a Regent's Park Apartment Complex. The roof was partially damaged.
May 2004LightningTroy-Lightning stuck a home in the 300 block of Aspinwall. Fire officials found charred wood and burnt insulation in the home.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindTroy-A trained spotter measure a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Trees were also reported blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindTroy-A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust, which resulted in a few large tree limbs down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTroy-A trained spotter estimated a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindTroy-A 70 MPH thunderstorm wind gust was measured by a trained spotter.
May 2024HailTroy-no account filed
April 2023HailTroy-no account filed
August 2014HailTroy-no account filed
March 2006HailTroy-no account filed
May 2005HailTroy-no account filed
May 2003HailTroy-no account filed
July 2001HailTroy-no account filed
June 2000HailTroy-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTroy-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindTroy-no account filed
July 1996HailTroy-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
Big Beaver3.3 miles18
Rochester Hills3.6 miles21
Auburn Heights4.3 miles21
Charing Cross4.4 miles17
Oak Grove4.8 miles17
Clawson5.0 miles17
Birmingham5.2 miles17
Rochester5.2 miles21

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 TroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q990271The 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 1615125. 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.