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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.

River Rouge within Wayne County

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

Population over time

2 figures

River 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.

YearPeople Change
20107,903
20207,224-679 (-9%)

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

61 since 2018

Regional 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 use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning14
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking1

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
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYANDOTTE FD 0000619 - 2019
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEARBORN FD 0010923 - 2018
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0033077 - 2019
7 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0028065 - 2019
4 August 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0028540 - 2018
3 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesALLEN PARK FD 0002267 - 2019
20 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDETROIT FD 0029719 - 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Detroit MineSaltProducer
Detroit Salt MineHaliteProducer1895, 1910
Wr Grace Zonolite DivVermiculiteProducer
Clippert Brick and Tile Co. PitClayPast Producer
Detroit Lime Co Calcining PlantCalciumProducer
Ford Clay Pit and MineClayPast Producer
River Rouge LimekilnCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2006Thunderstorm WindRiver Rouge-Trained spotter reported numerous 6 inch tree limbs down.
June 2006HailRiver Rouge-no account filed
May 1996HailRiver Rouge-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
Delray1.8 miles22
Ecorse2.1 miles19
Melvindale2.3 miles20
Fort Wayne2.7 miles22
Lincoln Park2.8 miles20
Dearborn4.0 miles20
Wyandotte4.2 miles19
Allen Park4.2 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 River RougeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2049746The 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.