Flat Rock, Michigan

Flat Rock, Michigan City of Flat Rock The Flat Rock Municipal Building at Gibraltar Road in December 2010 The Flat Rock Municipal Building at Gibraltar Road in December 2010 Flat Rock is a town/city in Wayne County of the U.S.

At the 2010 census, the town/city population was 9,878. Flat Rock is home to the Flat Rock Assembly Plant, owned by Ford Motor Company.

Flat Rock is the namesake of the famous Flat Rock Speedway, positioned in Berlin Charter Township in neighboring Monroe County.

Flat Rock began as a Wyandot settlement.

The first Euro-American pioneer in Flat Rock were Michael Vreeland and his five grown sons between 1811 and 1820.

Descendants of Michael Vreeland still live in the town and attend Flat Rock enhance schools, being the seventh generation to reside in the town their family founded.

The first mention of any pioneer in the region later to turn into Flat Rock was made by a French priest, Father Jean Dilhet.

The villages of Vreelandt and Smooth Rock were platted on part of this acreage.

The village of Flat Rock was platted and recorded in 1838 by the Gibraltar and Flat Rock Land Co.

While Flat Rock is a quickly growing improve today, even with its growth, it remains a unique "small town" with many of its inhabitants having roots reaching back to the 1800s.

From the 1930s until the early 1960s an airport was positioned in Flat Rock.

Flat Rock's massive expansion from a small village to a medium-sized suburb began with the assembly of Huron River Estates from 1953-1954.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.67 square miles (17.28 km2), of which 6.53 square miles (16.91 km2) is territory and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km2) is water. The town/city is primarily inside Wayne County, but a portion of the town/city lies in Monroe County, because the border along the Huron River follows the course of the river in 1923, the year Flat Rock was incorporated as a village.

Mazda's operation at the Flat Rock Assembly Plant, which opened in the 1980s, was the first Japanese auto manufacturing in the U.S.

There were 3,754 homeholds of which 38.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.8% were married couples living together, 16.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 28.5% were non-families.

27.4% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.6% were from 25 to 44; 27.1% were from 45 to 64; and 10.4% were 65 years of age or older.

There were 3,181 homeholds out of which 39.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.7% were married couples living together, 16.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 27.5% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.3% under the age of 18, 10.1% from 18 to 24, 30.3% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.5% who were 65 years of age or older.

In the last 10 years Flat Rock has grown from a sleepy suburb on the fringes of Wayne County to a booming evolution area.

Flat Rock Playscape Flat Rock High School Flat Rock Community Baseball Complex Flat Rock Public Library Flat Rock Historical Park Flat Rock Fountain/Ice Skating Rink Flat Rock Community Recreation Center For fiscal year 2006, Flat Rock Community Schools received $7,619 - USD from the State of Michigan per student. Flat Rock Community High School In addition, Summit Academy Schools, which is a slowly burgeoning and prominent charter school in the area, begun at the Flat Rock campus.

The Flat Rock ground still continues to operate.

Flat Rock has a higher overall tornado average than the state of Michigan as a whole, and a 66% greater average than the United States as a whole. Two F4 tornadoes have hit Flat Rock - one in 1956, another in 1965 resulting in 23 deaths and over 300 injuries.

Flat Rock is the childhood hometown of Dann Florek, who plays Captain Donald Cragen in the tv series Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Flat Rock, Michigan "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Flat Rock city, Michigan".

"SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Wayne County, MI" (DC10 - SD_C26163_001.pdf) (Archived 2014-06-15 at Web - Cite).

City Data - Flat Rock, MI City of Flat Rock official website Flat Rock Downtown Development Authority Flat Rock Historical Society Flat Rock Public Library Flat Rock Municipalities and communities of Monroe County, Michigan, United States Municipalities and communities of Wayne County, Michigan, United States

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