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Davison, Michigan

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Davison City. It lies in ZIP code area 48423. The Survey maps it on the Davison quadrangle. 5,143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Davison within Genesee County

On record in Davison

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Davison fell from 5,173 to 5,143 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
20105,173
20205,143-30 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

20 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Davison between 2018 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 August 2020Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 437 - 2020
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18269 - 2018
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAPEER CITY FIRE/RESCUE 0118218 - 2018
8 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 19259 - 2019
12 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBURTON CITY FIRE/RESCUE 174 - 2020
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18180 - 2018
6 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 237 - 2020
5 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDAVISON-RICHFIELD AREA FD 18179 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Davison: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Kurtz Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Genesee County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davison in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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 2023HailDavison$20,000,000Reports of widespread hail damage across Davison, which included car and house damage.
June 2006LightningDavison$55,000A very intense lightning bolt struck a home, causing severe damage. The strike left a hole in the side of one wall and had electrical outlets smoking. Damages were estimated at $15K to the property and $40K to contents. Residents were home but no one was injured.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDavison$15,000Numerous large trees limbs were reported down along with power lines.
September 2005LightningDavison$15,000Lightning struck a home in the Continental North mobile home park, causing a fire in the roof.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDavison$5,000A steel flag pole was bent, along with damage to a roof.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDavison$3,000Two to three foot diameter tree reported down on a house, along with downed power lines.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDavison-Tree reported down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindDavison-Several trees downed along with power lines and tree branches. Flint area also had one tree reported down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDavison-Numerous wires down on roads.
July 2023HailDavison-Reports of baseball size hail in Davison.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDavison-Trees reported down.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindDavison-Multiple trees and power lines reported down.
July 2017Flash FloodDavison-Richfield Road was washed out.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDavison-A 1 foot diameter tree reported blown down.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDavison-A tree was reported down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDavison-A tree was snapped in half.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindDavison-A trained spotter measured a 74 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindDavison-Numerous tree limbs were reported down.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDavison-A local newspaper reported a tree blown down on a power line along Irish Rd, just south of Potter Rd.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindDavison-A spotter reported a wind gust of 60 mph in the community of Davison.
July 2023HailDavison-no account filed
July 2023HailDavison-no account filed
June 2013HailDavison-no account filed
June 2009HailDavison-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDavison-no account filed
May 2003HailDavison-no account filed
July 2003HailDavison-no account filed
August 2001HailDavison-no account filed
December 1998Thunderstorm WindDavison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Genesee 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
Richfield Center4.0 miles16
Belsay4.2 miles16
Lapeer Heights4.5 miles16
Russellville4.5 miles16
Burton5.8 miles13
Atlas6.7 miles13
Rogersville6.8 miles16
Genesee7.5 miles16

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 DavisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2644347The 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 624356. 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.