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Rock, Michigan

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Maple Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49880. The Survey maps it on the Rock quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Rock within Delta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rock between 1994 and 2012, burning about 62 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCIGAR FIRE
15 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2009Debris and open burning6.3 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesNORT ROCK ROAD
19 May 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKABOOM
21 April 1994Debris and open burning30 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delta County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rock: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Fox Valley Construction Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Weldum QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Delta County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindRock$300,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRock$100,000There was a delayed report via social media of damaging thunderstorm winds in the town of Rock. Two barns, two large greenhouses and a transformer were destroyed, and several vehicles were also damaged. Hundreds of large trees were downed with diameters estimated to range between eight inches to a foot. Several power lines were down causing power outages in the Rock area. The time of the report was estimated from radar.
August 2004HailRock-Nickel sized hail was reported.
May 2002HailRock-Nickel sized hail was reported.
June 2002HailRock-One inch diameter hail was reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRock-Tree branches up to three inches in diameter were broken off.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRock-Tree branches 3 to 5 inched in diameter were broken off.
July 1995HailRock-Winds damage to U.P. Fabricating building.
March 1998Funnel CloudRock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delta 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
Trombly2.0 miles13
Campbell4.0 miles13
Lathrop6.2 miles12
Beaver6.5 miles9
Saint Nicholas6.6 miles9
Winde7.8 miles9
Perkins8.0 miles9
Osier (historical)9.3 miles12

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 RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7354135The 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 636073. 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.