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Rose City, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Rose City City. It lies in ZIP code area 48654. It stands on Bixby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rose City quadrangle. 577 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Rose City within Ogemaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Rose City fell from 653 to 577 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
2010653
2020577-76 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Rose City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestJINX
9 June 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOGEMAW 04 - BLOW OUT FIRE
18 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.7 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOGEMAW 08 - POWERLINE FIRE
14 June 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHuron-Manistee National ForestGIBBY
9 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOGEMAW 05 - COUNTRY STORE
6 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOGEMAW 03 - SCHMIDTT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ogemaw 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 Rose City: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Fitzgerald and Powell Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ogemaw County Road Commission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ogemaw County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rose City in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2010Flash FloodRose City$150,000Slow-moving thunderstorms dumped 2.5 to 4.0 inches of rain on the Rose City area on the night of the 11th-12th. The resulting flooding caused damage to 20 basements, and washed out a bridge in the area. Some roads were barricaded or otherwise blocked for several hours to warn off motorists.
September 2015Tornado (EF1)Rose City$40,000A tornado tracked nearly nine miles across northern Ogemaw County. Damage was sporadic along the path, peaking at EF-1. A number of trees were downed, in some cases snapped off. Several homes and other structures were damaged by downed trees.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRose City$26,000Multiple trees were downed onto houses.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRose City$15,000A large tree was downed onto a pickup truck.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRose City$15,000Numerous large trees downed in Rose City. Power poles and lines downed across a road in Lupton.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRose City$12,000Spotter estimated 60-70 mph winds. Numerous trees downed, one onto a barn.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRose City$5,000An isolated severe thunderstorm downed power lines and a few large trees.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindRose City$5,000Numerous trees and power lines downed.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindRose City$2,000Trees down in front of the Dollar General in Rose City. Time estimated via radar.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRose City$2,000Trees were downed onto Fairview Road.
August 2025HailRose City-Multiple reports of hail up to the size of golf balls in the vicinity of Rose City in northern Ogemaw county, Michigan.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRose City-Strong thunderstorm winds toppled trees and utility poles across the city.
June 2008HailRose City-no account filed
July 2006HailRose City-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRose City-no account filed
June 2001HailRose City-no account filed
August 2001HailRose City-no account filed
April 1995HailRose City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ogemaw 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
Fayettes Corner1.5 miles11
Lupton4.9 miles11
Damon7.1 miles9
Shady Shores7.6 miles11
Campbells Corners7.6 miles11
Selkirk7.9 miles10
Camp Lu Lay Lea8.2 miles10
West Branch11.9 miles11

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 Rose CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3308147The 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 636193. 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.