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DeWitt, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1983. It stands in DeWitt Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48820. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lansing North quadrangle. 4,776 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

DeWitt within Clinton County

Population over time

2 figures

DeWitt grew from 4,507 to 4,776 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
20104,507
20204,776+269 (+6%)

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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of DeWitt between 1995 and 2019, burning about 18 acres in total. None 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 use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCLINTON 01 - TURNER MUCK FIRE
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEWITT TOWNSHIP FD 0000720 - 2018
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1826744 - 2018
23 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBATH TOWNSHIP FD 0000083 - 2019
8 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEWITT TOWNSHIP FD 1900433 - 2019
7 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEWITT AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 0000104 -
23 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEWITT TOWNSHIP FD 0000437 - 2018
18 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesDEWITT TOWNSHIP FD 1900465 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton 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 DeWitt: 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
Boichot Howe Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
East DeWitt1.6 miles12
Gunnisonville3.2 miles12
Clinton Village3.8 miles12
Valley Farms4.2 miles12
South Riley5.0 miles11
Bath6.6 miles14
Wacousta7.0 miles11
Price7.5 miles14

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 DeWittAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2470211The 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 624400. 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.