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Delton, Michigan

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Barry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49046. The Survey maps it on the Delton quadrangle. 854 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 947 feet above sea level.

Delton within Barry County

Population over time

2 figures

Delton fell from 872 to 854 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
2010872
2020854-18 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Delton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Natural3

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
29 June 2005Equipment and vehicle use12 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000234 - 2018
10 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000221 - 2018
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000174 - 2018
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTON FD 0000172 - 2018
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000048 - 2019
30 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHICKORY CORNERS FD 0000069 - 2018
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesORANGEVILLE TOWNSHIP VFD 0000117 - 2018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Delton: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Leonard Bros Clay PitClayPast Producer
Rieth-Riley Construction Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sutherland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delton in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
May 2000HailDelton$50,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindDelton$25,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDelton$15,000Trees and power lines downed in Delton. A large awning was blown off of a downtown storefront.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDelton$10,000Two trees were blown down by a severe thunderstorm wind gust in Delton.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindDelton$10,000Barry Central Dispatch reported trees and power lines downed in Delton.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDelton$10,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDelton$10,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDelton$5,000Two large trees were blown down along Delton road.
June 2006HailDelton$5,000Three quarters inch hail was reported in Delton and Hickory Corners.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDelton$5,000Tree blown down onto car in Prairieville Township, 5 miles southwest of Delton.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindDelton$5,000no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindDelton$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDelton$2,500Trees downed in and around Delton.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindDelton$2,500Barry County Central Dispatch reported large limbs knocked down in Delton.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDelton-Roof off a farm outbuilding. Several large trees damaged.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDelton-A trained spotter reported multiple trees with diameters of ten inches or more were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 70 mph.
March 2007HailDelton-Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported by the public in Delton.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDelton-Amateur radio operators estimated an 80-mph wind gust near Delton in Barry Township.
August 1993HailDelton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barry 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
Stony Point1.0 miles19
Prairieville2.5 miles13
Cloverdale3.1 miles13
Hickory Corners4.4 miles19
Cedar Creek4.5 miles12
Turners Corner5.1 miles19
Woodlawn Beach5.4 miles19
Circle Pine Center5.8 miles13

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 DeltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8354560The 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 624538. 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.