Roseville

History

The first permanent post office in the area was established in 1840 by William Rose who named it "Roseville" in honor of his father Dennison Rose, a veteran of the War of 1812. The village of Roseville was incorporated in 1926, and the municipal building was constructed in 1929 at Gratiot Avenue and Meier Road. This replaced the Erin Township Building that was built near the corner of 11 Mile Road and Gratiot in 1886. The 1929 building housed administrative offices as well as the police and fire departments until the 1960s, when separate police and fire stations were constructed. City offices remained in the building until 1974. Michigan's first commercial airport, Packard Field, opened at Gratiot Avenue and Frazho Road in 1919. It was renamed Gratiot Airport in 1929, and later Hartung Field. The Eastgate Shopping Center was constructed on the site in the 1950s. The Erin-Roseville Library was established in 1936 in one room of the municipal building. The library moved to its own building in the 1960s and into the newly constructed civic center in 1974. In 2010, it was circulating approximately 250,000 items annually. In 1958, the village and remaining parts of Erin Township were incorporated as the City of Roseville. An early regional mall, the Macomb Mall, opened in 1964 and is still open today, located west of Gratiot and Masonic.

Geography

Roseville is in southern Macomb County, northeast of downtown Detroit. It is bordered to the east by St. Clair Shores, to the south by Eastpointe, to the west by Warren, and to the north by Fraser and Clinton Township. Mount Clemens, the Macomb county seat, is to the northeast. According to the United States Census Bureau, Roseville has a total area of , of which are land and , or 0.27%, are water. * runs north–south, though still signed east- and westbound, along the eastern edge of the city. Between 10 and 12 Mile Roads, it forms the boundary between Roseville and St. Clair Shores. * travels east and west through the middle of Roseville. * (; named after engineer Charles Gratiot) runs northeast and southwest, and (roughly) bisects the city as it connects Detroit to Mount Clemens and points north. *, named for Governor Alex Groesbeck, is near the western edge of Roseville. It extends northeast from Detroit and is a high-speed and broad diagonal connector to northern Macomb County. *East–west travel is mainly on the mile roads; that is, 10 Mile Road on the south (Eastpointe, formerly known as East Detroit) border through 14 Mile Road on the north border. *Utica Road is an important diagonal connector that crosses the city from southeast to northwest, starting at Martin Road, near Gratiot Avenue, and extending to the city's northern boundary at 13 Mile, then to Fraser, Clinton Township, Sterling Heights and Utica beyond.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  25,972
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  23,523
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  22,322
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  20,754
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  20,082
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  18,963
• Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

  Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  16,267
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  15,783

Most recent

• M 2.7 — 2026-05-04
  8 km N of Maybee, Michigan
• M 3 — 2026-04-26
  7 km SSE of Amherstburg, Canada
• M 2.5 — 2022-05-23
  2 km NNW of Corunna, Canada
• M 3.2 — 2020-08-21
  2 km SSE of Detroit Beach, Michigan
• M 3.4 — 2018-04-20
  Michigan
• M 2.6 — 2017-05-14
  18 km ENE of Leamington, Canada