Flat Rock, Michigan

Flat Rock is a city in southern Wayne County, Michigan, with a very small part in Monroe County, and a Downriver suburb of Detroit about 37 kilometres southwest of downtown Detroit. The area began as a Wyandot settlement, and Michael Vreeland and his five grown sons were the first European-American settlers between 1811 and 1820, so the town was called the Village of Vreeland until 1838. The name comes from an outcropping of limestone rock on the south side of the Huron River. Henry Ford was drawn to the water power of the river and in 1925 set up a Ford Motor Company lamp factory on its banks, supplied by the Flat Rock Dam. Flat Rock was incorporated as a village in 1923 and as a city in 1965, and had 10,541 residents at the 2020 census.