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East Rockwood, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Brownstown Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48173. It stands on Morrison Drain. The Survey maps it on the Rockwood quadrangle.

East Rockwood within Wayne County

On record in East Rockwood

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

12 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of East Rockwood between 2010 and 2019, burning about 351 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000141 - 2019
24 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000272 - 2019
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000228 - 2018
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019475 -
18 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019457 -
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000146 - 2018
27 April 2019Debris and open burning300 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019258 -
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesESTRAL BEACH VFD 0201911 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of East Rockwood: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ritter's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Rockwood PlantSilicaProducerSedimentary
Rockwood Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sibley Quarry Rockwood QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
South Rockwood Clay MineClayPast Producer
E. Rockwood Glass Sand ExposureSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ottawa Silica Quarry & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Rockwood in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2014Flash FloodEast Rockwood$1,100,000,000no account filed
November 2019FloodEast Rockwood$2,500,000no account filed
August 2014FloodEast Rockwood-Residual flooding and runoff left many roads flooded and closed, with Ecorse Creek in Dearborn Heights reaching a record stage of 10.22 feet at 02:10 Z on August 12th.
July 2012HailEast Rockwood-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
Milleville Beach1.3 miles18
Maple Beach1.3 miles18
Cherry Island2.4 miles18
Rockwood2.5 miles18
Gibraltar3.4 miles18
Flat Rock5.4 miles16
Woodhaven6.5 miles19
Trenton6.5 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122544377The 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 625250. 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.