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Roscommon, Michigan

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Higgins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48653. It stands on Robinson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roscommon South quadrangle. 981 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Roscommon within Roscommon County

Population over time

2 figures

Roscommon fell from 1,075 to 981 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
20101,075
2020981-94 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Roscommon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 were 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural3
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2012Naturalunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROSCOMMON 11
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesGERRISH TOWNSHIP FIRE AND EMS 19414 - 2019
7 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2003Natural2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBEAVER CREEK FD 19196 - 2019
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTH BRANCH TOWNSHIP FD 0033585 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roscommon 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 Roscommon: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
N.Roscommon Clay SampleFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Steele Brothers Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Roscommon County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roscommon in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2006: 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2006HailRoscommon-A cluster of strong thunderstorms moved across Central Lower Michigan in the mid to late morning hours. One storm got strong enough to produce marginally severe hail.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRoscommon-Trees were downed.
June 1995TornadoRoscommon-Skywarn spotters observed a funnel that dropped close to the ground. While the funnel never made visible contact with the ground, a rotating, lifting cloud of dirt and debris developed briefly beneath it.
October 2006HailRoscommon-no account filed
June 2005HailRoscommon-no account filed
June 2005HailRoscommon-no account filed
July 2003HailRoscommon-no account filed
August 2003HailRoscommon-no account filed
October 1999HailRoscommon-no account filed
May 1998HailRoscommon-no account filed
March 1998HailRoscommon-no account filed
March 1998HailRoscommon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roscommon 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
Sharps Corners7.2 miles11
Geels7.8 miles10
Lyon Manor8.4 miles11
Au Sable River Park9.6 miles10
Keno9.8 miles10
Hillcrest9.9 miles12
Higgins Lake10.0 miles12
Artesia Beach11.1 miles10

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 RoscommonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961207The 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 1621434. 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.