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Rockwood, Michigan

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Rockwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 48173. It stands on Cass Drain. The Survey maps it on the Rockwood quadrangle. 3,240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Rockwood within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Rockwood fell from 3,289 to 3,240 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
20103,289
20203,240-49 (-1%)

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

25 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Rockwood between 2010 and 2020, burning about 364 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 use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
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 -
18 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019457 -

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Rockwood: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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
Ritter's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Rockwood PlantSilicaProducerSedimentary
Rockwood Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sibley Quarry Rockwood QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Bunte Bros Tile Co.Clay PitClayPast Producer
E. Rockwood Glass Sand ExposureSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ottawa Silica Quarry & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Rockwood Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockwood in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 flood, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2014Flash FloodEast Rockwood$1,100,000,000no account filed
November 2019FloodEast Rockwood$2,500,000no account filed
September 2018Tornado (EF0)Rockwood$150,000This tornado began in Berlin Township in Monroe County about 2 miles south of South Rockwood. The tornado entered Wayne County in Rockwood and then continued for another 2 miles, before dissipating near the intersection of Meadow Lane and Ostreich Road near the border of Brownstown Charter Township and the city of Gibraltar. The tornado remained at EF0 strength throughout the entire path length. Damage included multiple limbs and large trees downed, along with missing shingles to a house near the end of the tornado path.
August 2023Tornado (EF0)Rockwood$50,000The tornado weakened as it crossed the Huron River from Monroe County and into Wayne County. The tornado continued tracking east-southeast and moved over the Lake Erie Metropark Golf Course with multiple large tree limbs downed before ending at the Detroit River. The total path length of the tornado as it moved through Monroe and Wayne counties was 5.4 miles.
August 2014FloodEast Rockwood-Residual flooding and runoff left many roads flooded and closed, with Ecorse Creek in Dearborn Heights reaching a record stage of 10.22 feet at 02:10 Z on August 12th.
July 2012HailEast Rockwood-no account filed
May 1998HailRockwood-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
East Rockwood2.5 miles18
Cherry Island2.8 miles18
Flat Rock3.0 miles16
Maple Beach3.4 miles18
Gibraltar3.4 miles18
Milleville Beach3.5 miles18
Woodhaven4.7 miles19
Trenton6.0 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 RockwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1273766The 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 636095. 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.