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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Rome Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 2018Regional 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 use | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 713 - 2020 |
| 26 August 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 1020 - 2018 |
| 14 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ADDISON FD 0000836 - 2019 |
| 5 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 309 - 2019 |
| 12 May 2020 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 298 - 2020 |
| 9 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ADRIAN TOWNSHIP FD 0000233 - 2019 |
| 22 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 280 - 2019 |
| 10 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CAMBRIDGE FD 253 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Rome Center | $500,000 | A 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rome Center | $16,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Rome Center | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Rome Center | $6,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rome Center | - | Numerous trees reported down. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rome Center | - | Local law enforcement reported power lines down. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Rome 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rome 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rome Center | - | Spotters reported numerous trees blown down. |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rome Center | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onsted | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Geneva | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Cadmus | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Round Lake Estates | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Clayton | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Springville | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Manitou Beach | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Devil's Lake Estates | 6.8 miles | 9 |
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 Q122563521 | 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 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.




