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.
Population over time
2 figuresSouth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,675 | |
| 2020 | 1,587 | -88 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Romulus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1928 USGS Romulus quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Flat Rock quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Flat Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Flat Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Flat Rock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
22 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FLAT ROCK FD 0001101 - 2018 |
| 8 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WOODHAVEN FD 0000141 - 2019 |
| 24 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROCKWOOD FD 0000272 - 2019 |
| 11 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BROWNSTOWN FD 0002358 - 2019 |
| 7 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ROCKWOOD FD 0000228 - 2018 |
| 27 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019475 - |
| 18 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2019457 - |
| 16 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BERLIN CHARTER TWP FD STATION 1 NEWPORT 2020351 - |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ritter's Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Rockwood Plant | Silica | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Rockwood Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Sibley Quarry Rockwood Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Bunte Bros Tile Co.Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| E. Rockwood Glass Sand Exposure | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ottawa Silica Quarry & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| South Rockwood Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | South Rockwood | $300,000 | The 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Rockwood | $50,000 | Large trees observed blown down. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Rockwood | - | Trees and wires reported down. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Rockwood | - | A tree was blown down, along with a few large limbs. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Rockwood | - | A tree was blown down. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Rockwood | - | Trees reported down. |
| July 2012 | Hail | South Rockwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | South Rockwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | South Rockwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | South Rockwood | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | South Rockwood | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Oldport | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Estral Beach | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Carleton | 6.9 miles | 17 | |
| Grafton | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Stony Creek | 7.9 miles | 18 | |
| Pointe aux Peaux | 8.2 miles | 18 | |
| Stony Point | 8.5 miles | 18 |
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 Rockwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2334082 | The 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.










