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Romulus, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Romulus City. It lies in ZIP code area 48174. It stands on Post Drain. The Survey maps it on the Belleville quadrangle. 25,178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Romulus within Wayne County

On record in Romulus

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Romulus grew from 23,989 to 25,178 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
201023,989
202025,178+1,189 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

42 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Romulus between 2018 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural6
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
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003182 - 2019
8 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBELLEVILLE FD 250 - 2020
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 191022 - 2019
4 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003111 - 2019
23 August 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHURON TOWNSHIP FD 18884 - 2018
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 0001177 - 2018
3 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 0001124 - 2018
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0002914 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Romulus: 2 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
Cadillac Sands Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Redman Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romulus in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRomulus$15,000Numerous downed power lines reported.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindRomulus$10,000A roof collapsed due to high winds.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRomulus$5,000Multiple trees blown down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRomulus$1,000Trained spotters reported the windows blown out of the County Road Commission building.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindRomulus-Trees observed down on the road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRomulus-Large trees reported blown down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRomulus-Measured gusts at Detroit Metro Airport.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindRomulus-Two large tree branches reported down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindRomulus-Six inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindRomulus-Wires reported down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindRomulus-Measured at Detroit Metro Airport.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRomulus-Large tree limbs were blown across I-275 and I-94.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRomulus-A power pole fell onto a car.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRomulus-Local media reported trees blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRomulus-A trained spotter estimated a 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRomulus-A trained weather spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindRomulus-no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRomulus-no account filed
July 2010HailRomulus-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRomulus-no account filed
June 2006HailRomulus-no account filed
June 2006HailRomulus-no account filed
June 2006HailRomulus-no account filed
May 2004HailRomulus-no account filed
May 2004HailRomulus-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindRomulus-no account filed
September 1994HailRomulus-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
French Landing2.4 miles19
Wayne4.1 miles20
New Boston4.1 miles19
Belleville North4.5 miles19
Sunnyside4.8 miles20
Belleville4.8 miles19
Roulo5.1 miles19
Norwayne5.2 miles20

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 RomulusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1544846The 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 636147. 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.