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.
Population over time
2 figuresRockwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,289 | |
| 2020 | 3,240 | -49 (-1%) |
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
25 since 2010Regional 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 use | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
| 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 - |
| 18 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019457 - |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Bunte Bros Tile Co.Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| E. Rockwood Glass Sand Exposure | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ottawa Silica Quarry & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| South Rockwood Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | East Rockwood | $1,100,000,000 | no account filed |
| November 2019 | Flood | East Rockwood | $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Rockwood | $150,000 | This 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 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Rockwood | $50,000 | The 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 2014 | Flood | East 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 2012 | Hail | East Rockwood | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Rockwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Rockwood | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Cherry Island | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Flat Rock | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Maple Beach | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Gibraltar | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Milleville Beach | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Woodhaven | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Trenton | 6.0 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 Rockwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1273766 | 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 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.











