Deerfield, Michigan
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49238. It stands on Camp Drain. The Survey maps it on the Deerfield quadrangle. 901 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDeerfield grew from 898 to 901 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 898 | |
| 2020 | 901 | +3 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Blissfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Blissfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Deerfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Deerfield between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 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 use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DUNDEE TOWNSHIP FD 0000492 - 2018 |
| 15 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IDA TOWNSHIP VFD 227 - 2019 |
| 5 April 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | RIDGEWAY TOWNSHIP FD 0000071 - 2019 |
| 24 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 96 - 2019 |
| 9 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 354 - 2020 |
| 7 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 352 - 2020 |
| 7 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IDA TOWNSHIP VFD 380 - 2020 |
| 4 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | SUMMERFIELD TOWNSHIP VFD 345 - 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Deerfield: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petersburg Limestone Exposure | Limestone, General | Prospect | ||
| Atkin's Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Saxton and Son Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deerfield in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | $10,000 | A barn was reported destroyed. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | Two power line polls broke off, along with 6 inch diamater tree limbs reported down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | A large oak tree fell onto a house. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Deerfield | - | Roads were reported closed due to flooding. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deerfield | - | A trained weather spotter reported 6 inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | Deerfield | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellsville | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Blissfield | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Riga | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Britton | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Holloway | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Ridgeway | 8.5 miles | 12 | |
| Palmyra | 8.6 miles | 11 | |
| Lenawee Junction | 8.8 miles | 11 |
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 Deerfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3218645 | The 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 624496. 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.





