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.
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
Gibraltar Road-Waterway Canal Bridgelisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresGibraltar 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,656 | |
| 2020 | 4,997 | +341 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1912 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Rockwood quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Rockwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Rockwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Rockwood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 2010Regional 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 use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FLAT ROCK FD 0001101 - 2018 |
| 9 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WOODHAVEN FD 0000143 - 2019 |
| 8 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WOODHAVEN FD 0000141 - 2019 |
| 6 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WOODHAVEN FD 0000140 - 2019 |
| 24 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROCKWOOD FD 0000272 - 2019 |
| 11 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BROWNSTOWN FD 0002358 - 2019 |
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROCKWOOD FD 0000228 - 2018 |
| 27 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019475 - |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling Mill | Iron | Producer | ||
| Ritter's Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Rockwood Plant | Silica | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Rockwood Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Sibley Quarry Rockwood Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| South Rockwood Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Wyandotte Cement Plt. | Stone | Producer | ||
| E. Rockwood Glass Sand Exposure | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ottawa Silica Quarry & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Gibraltar | $500,000 | An 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 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Gibraltar | $50,000 | The 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 2004 | Lightning | Gibraltar | - | 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 2010 | Hail | Gibraltar | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Island | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Maple Beach | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Trenton | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Milleville Beach | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Grosse Ile | 3.4 miles | 19 | |
| East Rockwood | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Rockwood | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Woodhaven | 4.1 miles | 19 |
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 Gibraltar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1522945 | The 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.











