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Westland, Michigan

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Westland City. It lies in ZIP code area 48185. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wayne quadrangle. 85,420 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Westland within Wayne County

On record in Westland

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Westland grew from 84,094 to 85,420 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
201084,094
202085,420+1,326 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

48 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Westland between 2018 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural6
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
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 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINKSTER FD 193611 - 2019
5 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0005507 - 2019
30 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY FD 0002021 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCANTON FD 0005396 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196253 - 2019
14 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0007061 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 0001177 - 2018

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 Westland: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Lightweight Aggregate Corp PitClayPast Producer
Mijal PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westland in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 6 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
September 2014Thunderstorm WindWestland5 hurtAn event tent fell over and injured 5 people.
July 2005LightningWestland1 hurtA Westland teenager was injured when lightning struck a tree he was standing under. The boy received first and second degree burns on his body.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWestland$50,000The media reported damage to a garage and car from thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWestland$20,000Large tree limbs reported down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland$15,000The local television stations reported a large tree uprooted on a house.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWestland$5,000Trained spotters reported power lines and utility poles blown down at Wayne and Cherry Hill roads. A newspaper also reported that a large tree had fallen onto a house near Cherry Hill and Carlson roads. Only minor damage was reported.
September 1997LightningWestland$5,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland$3,000The local television stations reported trees and power lines down.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland-A trained spotter reported large tree branches down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland-A trained spotter estimated a 60 MPH wind gust.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindWestland-A trained spotter reported a large tree down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWestland-A trained spotter reported trees blown down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindWestland-Trees and power lines blown down.
July 2011HailWestland-no account filed
May 2007HailWestland-no account filed
March 2006HailWestland-no account filed
May 2004HailWestland-no account filed
July 2004HailWestland-no account filed
May 2000HailWestland-no account filed
July 1997HailWestland-no account filed
May 1997HailWestland-no account filed
April 1995HailWestland-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
Norwayne1.9 miles20
Wayne3.0 miles20
Garden City3.7 miles20
Stark3.9 miles20
Livonia4.0 miles20
Eloise4.2 miles20
Canton4.5 miles20
Plymouth4.9 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 WestlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969300The 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 1616212. 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.