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Gibraltar, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Gibraltar City. It lies in ZIP code area 48173. It stands on Number Two Drain. The Survey maps it on the Rockwood quadrangle. 4,997 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Gibraltar within Wayne County

On record in Gibraltar

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

Population over time

2 figures

Gibraltar grew from 4,656 to 4,997 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
20104,656
20204,997+341 (+7%)

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

20 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Gibraltar between 2010 and 2019, burning about 61 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
22 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLAT ROCK FD 0001101 - 2018
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000143 - 2019
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000141 - 2019
6 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000140 - 2019
24 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000272 - 2019
11 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBROWNSTOWN FD 0002358 - 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 -

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Gibraltar: 6 producers, 3 past producers. 6 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
Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling MillIronProducer
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
Wyandotte Cement Plt.StoneProducer
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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gibraltar in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 2 tornado, 1 lightning, 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
September 2018Tornado (EF1)Gibraltar$500,000An EF1 tornado began just to the west of W Jefferson Ave and south of Gibraltar Road. The tornado remained at EF1 strength up to the Navarre Street and Young Drive area, before weakening to EF0 strength for the remainder of the path. The tornado then crossed the Detroit River before dissipating at the north end of Elba Island in Grosse Ile Township. Damage included multiple large limbs and trees downed, a roof partially blown off and power lines downed.
August 2023Tornado (EF1)Gibraltar$50,000The weak tornado touched down to the southwest of Gibraltar Road and West Jefferson Avenue in the Brownstown Creek area. The tornado traveled southeast across West Jefferson Avenue and south Gibralter Road where multiple trees were topped, large tree limbs snapped and uprooted trees. The tornado crossed the northern portion of Edmond Island before continuing southeast to Horse Island where it eventually dissipated. Damage across the islands included large tree limbs downed, snapped trees, and a large tree downed on a trailer. Maximum winds were estimated to be 90 mph.
May 2004LightningGibraltar-Lightning was blamed for a blackout which left most of the City of Gibraltar and parts of Brownstown Township and the City of Flat Rock without power.
May 2010HailGibraltar-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
Cherry Island1.0 miles18
Maple Beach2.9 miles18
Trenton3.1 miles19
Milleville Beach3.1 miles18
Grosse Ile3.4 miles19
East Rockwood3.4 miles18
Rockwood3.4 miles18
Woodhaven4.1 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.

Wikipedia article on GibraltarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1522945The 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 626782. 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.