Each Downriver community uses different street signs, which can come in useful to help find out which community you are in at the moment.
Wayne County
Nearly all street signs erected by Wayne County are large white-on-green signs. Previously, these were ALL CAPS, but since about five years ago newer signs are erected in Mixed Case. Smaller Wayne County signs can be found in Brownstown Township, Grosse Ile and Huron Township.
By city
Allen Park
White-on-green, newer signs erected in Mixed Case after many years of using ALL CAPS.
Ecorse
White-on-green with a number of older white-on-blue signs still lingering into 2016, ALL CAPS.
Flat Rock
White-on-green, ALL CAPS.
Gibraltar
White-on-green, ALL CAPS.
Lincoln Park
White-on-blue, ALL CAPS.
Melvindale
White-on-green, ALL CAPS.
River Rouge
White-on-blue, ALL CAPS.
Riverview
White-on-green with decorative border, newer signs along major roads erected in Mixed Case and in a larger size after many years of using smaller ALL CAPS signs.
Rockwood
White-on-green, ALL CAPS.
Romulus
White-on-green, Mixed Case.
Southgate
Allen Road and Prechter BoulevardWhite-on-green, either ALL CAPS or on newer signs Mixed Case along major roads; black-on-white, ALL CAPS at other intersections.
Taylor
White-on-blue, newer signs erected in Mixed Case after many years of using ALL CAPS.
Trenton
White-on-blue, ALL CAPS. Signs along major roads are larger and usually only include the sign for the minor road.
Woodhaven
White-on-green, ALL CAPS.
Wyandotte
Oak Street and 20th Street. Notice an older "SIXTH ST" sticking through the Oak sign, an indication that that sign was recycled from an older white-on-green sign.Green-on-white with green border (black-on-white with black border on newer signs), ALL CAPS. The oldest versions of these signs have a squiggly-styled border and different font (with bolded numerals for numbered streets). Years ago, street signs were white-on-green, didn't have a border and for numbered streets the number was spelled out for First-Ninth Streets and written in numerical form for 10th-23rd Streets. The switchover occurred around 2000, with some white-on-green holdouts into the first few years of the 2000s, the last remaining white-on-green signs at Goddard Road and Lindbergh Street not being removed until 2005.
More photos
Sycamore Street and 15th Street
Chestnut Street and Sixth Street
Oak Street and Seventh Street
11th Street and Elm Street
Subdivisions with their own street signs
Some subdivisions may use their own street sign designs instead. Please add those subdivisions that use their own street signs, the community the subdivision is located in and the style of street sign the subdivision uses.
