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Britton, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ridgeway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49229. It stands on Springbrook Drain. The Survey maps it on the Deerfield quadrangle. 537 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Britton within Lenawee County

Population over time

2 figures

Britton fell from 586 to 537 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010586
2020537-49 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

10 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Britton between 2018 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000141 - 2018
18 June 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 336 - 2020
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 326 - 2020
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000075 - 2019
5 April 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000071 - 2019
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMILAN AREA FD 285 - 2019
3 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000069 - 2019
24 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesRAISIN TOWNSHIP FD 0000182 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lenawee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Britton: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Comfort Brick and Tile PitClayPast Producer
Irish Hills PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lenawee County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Britton in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002LightningBritton$100,000A newspaper reported that lightning struck a home in Macon Township and set it on fire, causing considerable damage.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBritton$10,000Trees, large tree limbs, and power lines down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBritton$1,000Trees were reported down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBritton-A large tree limb was observed down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBritton-Multiple trees blown down.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBritton-Measured gust via personal weather station.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBritton-A tree was reported blown down on the road.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindBritton-Numerous trees reported blown down east of Adrian.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBritton-Trained spotter reported a tree 4 feet in diameter blown down.
July 2023HailBritton-no account filed
March 2012HailBritton-no account filed
March 2003HailBritton-no account filed
April 2000HailBritton-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindBritton-no account filed
July 1998HailBritton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lenawee County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ridgeway1.8 miles12
Holloway5.7 miles11
Macon5.8 miles15
Tecumseh6.2 miles15
Deerfield7.3 miles12
Raisin Center7.6 miles11
Wellsville7.6 miles11
Newburg8.2 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BrittonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3319811The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 622012. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.