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South Rockwood, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Berlin Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48179. It stands on Port Creek. The Survey maps it on the Flat Rock quadrangle. 1,587 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

South Rockwood within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

South Rockwood fell from 1,675 to 1,587 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
20101,675
20201,587-88 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

22 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of South Rockwood between 2010 and 2020, burning about 360 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
22 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFLAT ROCK FD 0001101 - 2018
8 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWOODHAVEN FD 0000141 - 2019
24 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000272 - 2019
11 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBROWNSTOWN FD 0002358 - 2019
7 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROCKWOOD FD 0000228 - 2018
27 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019475 -
18 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019457 -
16 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2020351 -

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of South Rockwood: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ritter's Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Rockwood PlantSilicaProducerSedimentary
Rockwood Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sibley Quarry Rockwood QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Bunte Bros Tile Co.Clay PitClayPast Producer
E. Rockwood Glass Sand ExposureSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ottawa Silica Quarry & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Rockwood Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Rockwood in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2023Tornado (EF1)South Rockwood$300,000The weak tornado touched down on Carleton Rockwood Road, one mile east of Telegraph Road. The tornado tracked eastward across Armstrong Road where there were numerous large tree limbs down. There were multiple trees that were snapped and tops taken off, along with some house shingles partially torn off near Brandon Road. The tornado continued to track east across I-75 and South Huron River Drive into where numerous large tree limbs were blown down, one of which fell on a house. There was also a roof partially torn off and garage door damaged near South Huron River Drive and North Dixie Highway. Maximum winds were estimated to be 105 mph. The tornado then crossed into Wayne County and moved over the Lake Erie Metropark Golf Course with multiple large tree limbs downed before ending at the Detroit River. The total path length of the tornado as it moved through Monroe and Wayne counties was 5.4 miles.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSouth Rockwood$50,000Large trees observed blown down.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindSouth Rockwood-Trees and wires reported down.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindSouth Rockwood-A tree was blown down, along with a few large limbs.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindSouth Rockwood-A tree was blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSouth Rockwood-Trees reported down.
July 2012HailSouth Rockwood-no account filed
July 2012HailSouth Rockwood-no account filed
July 2012HailSouth Rockwood-no account filed
May 2004HailSouth Rockwood-no account filed
May 1998HailSouth Rockwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Newport4.9 miles16
Oldport5.0 miles18
Estral Beach5.7 miles13
Carleton6.9 miles17
Grafton7.1 miles17
Stony Creek7.9 miles18
Pointe aux Peaux8.2 miles18
Stony Point8.5 miles18

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 South RockwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2334082The 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 638409. 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.