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Westacres, Michigan

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Bloomfield Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48324. The Survey maps it on the Walled Lake quadrangle.

Westacres within Oakland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

19 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Westacres between 2018 and 2020, burning about 20 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
7 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWALLED LAKE FD 0000573 - 2019
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 192011 - 2019
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP FD 0004970 - 2019
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191895 - 2019
13 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191747 - 2019
11 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWATERFORD TOWNSHIP FD 0007188 - 2019
9 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 201496 - 2020
30 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMMERCE TOWNSHIP FD 191608 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oakland County

Storms near this place

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westacres in 9 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindWestacres-A large tree was uprooted and blocking the road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWestacres-Several trees reported down.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWestacres-Power lines reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWestacres-Small tree branches up to 3 inches in diameter were reported blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWestacres-A person from the general public estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWestacres-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWestacres-A trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWestacres-no account filed
August 2011HailWestacres-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
Four Towns1.4 miles22
Union Lake1.5 miles22
Commerce3.5 miles22
Orchard Lake3.7 miles21
Oxbow3.8 miles21
Wolverine Lake4.0 miles22
Keego Harbor4.3 miles21
Oakley Park4.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1616986. 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.

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.