River Rouge, Michigan
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in River Rouge City. It lies in ZIP code area 48218. It lies near Zug Island. The Survey maps it on the Dearborn quadrangle. 7,224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.
On record in River Rouge
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
West Jefferson Avenue-Rouge River Bridgelisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresRiver Rouge fell from 7,903 to 7,224 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 | 7,903 | |
| 2020 | 7,224 | -679 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 20 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.
- 1905 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Dearborn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
61 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of River Rouge between 2018 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WYANDOTTE FD 0000619 - 2019 |
| 5 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DEARBORN FD 0010923 - 2018 |
| 26 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019 |
| 15 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0033077 - 2019 |
| 7 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0028065 - 2019 |
| 4 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0028540 - 2018 |
| 3 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ALLEN PARK FD 0002267 - 2019 |
| 20 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DETROIT FD 0029719 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of River Rouge: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Calcium, Salt, Halite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Mine | Salt | Producer | ||
| Detroit Salt Mine | Halite | Producer | 1895, 1910 | |
| Wr Grace Zonolite Div | Vermiculite | Producer | ||
| Clippert Brick and Tile Co. Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Detroit Lime Co Calcining Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Ford Clay Pit and Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| River Rouge Limekiln | Calcium | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names River Rouge in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delray | 1.8 miles | 22 | |
| Ecorse | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Melvindale | 2.3 miles | 20 | |
| Fort Wayne | 2.7 miles | 22 | |
| Lincoln Park | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| Dearborn | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Wyandotte | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Allen Park | 4.2 miles | 20 |
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 River Rouge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2049746 | 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 635965. 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.












