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Romeo, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Bruce Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48065. The Survey maps it on the Romeo quadrangle. 3,767 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Romeo within Macomb County

On record in Romeo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Romeo grew from 3,596 to 3,767 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
20103,596
20203,767+171 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

12 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Romeo between 2018 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 2 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Smoking1

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
5 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0001083 - 2019
9 July 2019Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000957 - 2019
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0001486 - 2018
13 July 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000975 - 2019
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000578 - 2019
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesARMADA TOWNSHIP FD 188 - 2019
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRUCE TOWNSHIP-ROMEO FD 0000565 - 2019
12 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FD 0000749 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macomb County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Romeo: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Addison Township PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Natural Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Romeo Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sees Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Macomb County

Storms near this place

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romeo in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flood. The reports record 6 injuries. 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
July 1997Tornado (F0)Romeo6 hurt, $30,000,000no account filed
July 2000LightningRomeo$1,000,000A lightning strike started a fire that destroyed an automall.
September 2008FloodRomeo$750,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRomeo$7,000no account filed
October 2006LightningRomeo$5,000Lightning struck a home, sparking a fire. Property damage was roughly estimated at $5K.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRomeo$3,000Wires reported blown down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRomeo$2,000A large tree was reported down on house, along with downed power lines.
December 1998Thunderstorm WindRomeo$2,000no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindRomeo-A 12 inch tree limbs was observed down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRomeo-A tree was reported down.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Large tree limbs reported down blocking road.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRomeo-A small tree was blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Power lines reported down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Numerous tree limbs were reported blown down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindRomeo-A four inch diameter tree was reported blown down at 31 mile and Powell.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Six inch diameter tree limbs were reported blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindRomeo-A trained spotter reported a tree blown down on a house.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRomeo-A small tree was uprooted.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRomeo-A trained spotter reported several large tree limbs down.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Several trees were blown down in a thunderstorm.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Numerous trees were blown down by a thunderstorm.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Spotters reported several large trees and tree limbs down.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Several large trees were uprooted.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindRomeo-Large tree limbs blown down.
January 2020FloodRomeo-no account filed
June 2013HailRomeo-no account filed
May 2007HailRomeo-no account filed
May 2006HailRomeo-no account filed
July 2002HailRomeo-no account filed
August 2000HailRomeo-no account filed
October 1999HailRomeo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macomb 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
Clifton Mill4.1 miles12
Wolcott Mills5.1 miles14
Washington5.5 miles18
Davis5.7 miles17
Mount Vernon5.7 miles18
Rudgate East Company Mobile Home Park5.9 miles18
Ray Center6.6 miles14
Preston Corners7.2 miles17

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 RomeoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2241329The 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 636145. 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.