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.
Population over time
2 figuresDeWitt 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,507 | |
| 2020 | 4,776 | +269 (+6%) |
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.
- 1927 USGS De Witt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Lansing North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1995Regional 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 use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | CLINTON 01 - TURNER MUCK FIRE |
| 7 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DEWITT TOWNSHIP FD 0000720 - 2018 |
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DELTA TOWNSHIP FD 1826744 - 2018 |
| 23 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | BATH TOWNSHIP FD 0000083 - 2019 |
| 8 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DEWITT TOWNSHIP FD 1900433 - 2019 |
| 7 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DEWITT AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY 0000104 - |
| 23 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DEWITT TOWNSHIP FD 0000437 - 2018 |
| 18 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | DEWITT TOWNSHIP FD 1900465 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boichot Howe Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East DeWitt | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Gunnisonville | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Clinton Village | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Valley Farms | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| South Riley | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Bath | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Wacousta | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Price | 7.5 miles | 14 |
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 DeWitt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2470211 | 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 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.





