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Southgate, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Southgate City. It lies in ZIP code area 48195. It stands on Sexton and Kilfoil Drain. The Survey maps it on the Wyandotte quadrangle. 30,014 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Southgate within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Southgate fell from 30,047 to 30,014 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
201030,047
202030,014-33 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

47 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Southgate between 2018 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2

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
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYANDOTTE FD 0000619 - 2019
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesSOUTHGATE FD 1903240 - 2019
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005702 - 2019
2 August 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005667 - 2019
16 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesECORSE FD 1658 - 2019
13 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWYANDOTTE FD 0000568 - 2019
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesTAYLOR FD 0005931 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Southgate: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Ford Clay Pit and MineClayPast Producer
Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling MillIronProducer
Sibley Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wyandotte Cement Plt.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southgate in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 10 injuries. 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
September 2011Thunderstorm WindSouthgate10 hurt, $10,000Wind damage reported to structures at the River Rouge Days Festival, minor injuries occurred. Multiple trees and festival tents blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSouthgate-A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSouthgate-Several electrical poles were blown over by thunderstorm winds on Fort Street.
June 2002Flash FloodSouthgate-A newsported reported that an estimated 30 city streets were flooded by heavy thunderstorm rains.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSouthgate-Hundreds of trees were damaged by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017Flash FloodSouthgate-no account filed
June 2006HailSouthgate-no account filed
May 1996HailSouthgate-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
Wyandotte2.3 miles19
Lincoln Park2.7 miles20
Riverview2.8 miles19
Allen Park3.1 miles20
Sibley3.2 miles19
Ecorse3.3 miles19
Taylor Center3.7 miles16
Taylor4.4 miles16

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 SouthgateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q119706The 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 638446. 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.