Waterford, Michigan

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

• Waterford Village Historic Districtlisted 1979

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.

• 1907 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1936 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:31680
• 1943 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1952 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1985 USGS Pontiac quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Waterford between 2018 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Clarkston
• Clintonville
• Drayton Plains
• Gingellville
• Lake Angelus
• Andersonville

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Waterford: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Oakland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterford in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 lightning, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Oakland County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1615842. 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.