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.
Population over time
2 figuresSouthgate 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 30,047 | |
| 2020 | 30,014 | -33 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 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 Wyandotte quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1912 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Detroit quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
47 since 2018Regional 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 use | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WYANDOTTE FD 0000619 - 2019 |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SOUTHGATE FD 1903240 - 2019 |
| 26 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0007107 - 2019 |
| 3 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0005702 - 2019 |
| 2 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0005667 - 2019 |
| 16 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | ECORSE FD 1658 - 2019 |
| 13 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | WYANDOTTE FD 0000568 - 2019 |
| 11 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR FD 0005931 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ford Clay Pit and Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Mclouth Steel Trenton Rolling Mill | Iron | Producer | ||
| Sibley Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wyandotte Cement Plt. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southgate | 10 hurt, $10,000 | Wind damage reported to structures at the River Rouge Days Festival, minor injuries occurred. Multiple trees and festival tents blown down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southgate | - | A trained spotter estimated the wind gusts at 60 MPH. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southgate | - | Several electrical poles were blown over by thunderstorm winds on Fort Street. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Southgate | - | A newsported reported that an estimated 30 city streets were flooded by heavy thunderstorm rains. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southgate | - | Hundreds of trees were damaged by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Southgate | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Southgate | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Southgate | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyandotte | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Lincoln Park | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| Riverview | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Allen Park | 3.1 miles | 20 | |
| Sibley | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Ecorse | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Taylor Center | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Taylor | 4.4 miles | 16 |
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 Southgate | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q119706 | 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 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.











