Local coverage
Project conversations across Troy and Oakland County.
Which independent providers are available determines actual coverage around Troy. Every community page below brings its own housing and site notes.
Rochester
Rochester grew up around Paint Creek starting in 1818, with Needham Hemingway's 1835 mill giving way to the Goodison dam and gristmill by the 1860s -- water history that still shapes drainage near the creek and the 1983 Paint Creek Trail corridor today.
Local planning notes →Rochester Hills
Rochester Hills sits at the actual headwaters of the Rouge River's main branch, rising in the township's southwest corner, which means storm response here often determines what Troy sees downstream within hours.
Local planning notes →Royal Oak
Royal Oak's growth along Woodward Avenue took off after its 1921 incorporation, when population jumped from about 1,000 in 1910 to 23,000 by 1930 -- a construction pace that left an older storm-sewer network now handling more intense modern storms.
Local planning notes →Birmingham
Birmingham was settled in 1818 at the crossing of the Rouge River and the old Saginaw Trail, now Woodward Avenue, and its historic downtown still sits close to that same river crossing.
Local planning notes →Clawson
Clawson's low, level ground was known as 'the Corners' before its 1921 village charter, and the compact city that followed in 1940 packs older housing stock into one of the area's smaller footprints.
Local planning notes →Madison Heights
Madison Heights was carved out of Royal Oak Township's flat farmland in 1955, with Native settlement history along the Red Run waterway pointing to ground that has always needed careful drainage.
Local planning notes →Auburn Hills
Auburn Hills incorporated in 1983 and grew fast around the Chrysler headquarters campus and the Palace arena that opened in 1988, adding large paved commercial footprints to what had been 1821-era farmland.
Local planning notes →Berkley
Berkley incorporated in 1932 as a dense, compact suburb, and its older, closely spaced housing stock leaves less permeable ground between homes than in Troy's newer subdivisions.
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