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Rome Center, Michigan

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49221. It stands on Stoddard Drain. The Survey maps it on the Rome Center quadrangle.

Rome Center within Lenawee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

18 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rome Center between 2018 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 5 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 use8
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 713 - 2020
26 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 1020 - 2018
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADDISON FD 0000836 - 2019
5 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 309 - 2019
12 May 2020Natural3.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 298 - 2020
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesADRIAN TOWNSHIP FD 0000233 - 2019
22 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 280 - 2019
10 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCAMBRIDGE FD 253 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rome Center in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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 2010Tornado (EF1)Rome Center$500,000A tornado touched down at 148 am at Southard Highway and Woerner Road in Lenawee County. The tornado then tracked 2.5 miles east southeast to Springville Highway before lifting at 152 am. The path width was 250 yards with maximum winds of 90 mph as it crossed US 223, which is classified at an EF1. Several buildings were destroyed and numerous trees were downed by this tornado.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRome Center$16,000no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F1)Rome Center$15,000no account filed
June 1998LightningRome Center$6,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRome Center-Numerous trees reported down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRome Center-Local law enforcement reported power lines down.
April 2001HailRome Center-Like the day before, a front was nearly stationary across Indiana and Ohio. Again, enough instability was found aloft for thunderstorm development, though the environment was more favorable for storms to the south and west of southeast Michigan. A storm developed in Hillsdale County, Michigan toward 3 am EDT. The storm tended to weaken as it moved into Lenawee County, but not before producing dime sized hail in the western part of the county.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindRome Center-Trees and powerlines were blown down. In Adrian, 4,400 customers were without power after the storm. Lightning ignited a fire that damaged the roof of an apartment building in Adrian. A spotter reported large amounts of corn crop damage. The roof was blown off of a silo in Blissfield.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindRome Center-Spotters reported numerous trees blown down.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindRome Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee 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
Onsted4.3 miles13
Geneva5.0 miles9
Cadmus5.0 miles11
Round Lake Estates5.5 miles9
Clayton6.1 miles11
Springville6.3 miles13
Manitou Beach6.6 miles9
Devil's Lake Estates6.8 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122563521The 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 636144. 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.

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.