Roseville, Michigan, United States

🇺🇸 Roseville is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern suburb of Detroit, Roseville is located roughly 13 miles (20.9 km) north-east of downtown Detroit.

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 centre in 1974. It currently circulates 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, 14 miles (23 km) north-east 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 7 miles (11 km) to the northeast.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Roseville has a total area of 9.86 square miles (25.54 km²), of which 9.84 square miles (25.49 km²) are land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km²), or 0.27%, are water.

Main highways • I-94 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. • I-696 travels east and west through the middle of Roseville. • M-3, which is Gratiot Avenue (/ˈɡræʃɪt/; named after engineer Charles Gratiot) runs north-east and south-west, and (roughly) bisects the city as it connects Detroit to Mount Clemens and points north. • M-97 (Groesbeck Highway), named for Governor Alex Groesbeck, is near the western edge of Roseville. It extends north-east from Detroit and is a high-speed and broad diagonal connector to northern Macomb County.

Unnumbered roads • 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 south-east to north-west, 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.

Education Public schools are operated by Roseville Community Schools and Fraser Public Schools. Roseville Community Schools operates seven elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. Fraser Public Schools operates two elementary schools in the city.

The charter school Conner Creek Academy East is in the city.

St. Angela School of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit operated from approximately 1954 until the 2010s.