Litchfield, Michigan
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Litchfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 49252. The Survey maps it on the Litchfield quadrangle. 1,399 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLitchfield grew from 1,369 to 1,399 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 | 1,369 | |
| 2020 | 1,399 | +30 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1948 USGS Homer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Homer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Grand Rapids quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Litchfield between 2018 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | HOMER FD 169 - 2019 |
| 19 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2020-63 - 2020 |
| 12 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2020-54 - 2020 |
| 20 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2018-20 - 2018 |
| 14 April 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2018-18 - 2018 |
| 12 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2018-17 - 2018 |
| 28 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2020-25 - 2020 |
| 26 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | LITCHFIELD FD 2019-29 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Litchfield in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | $10,000 | Report of powerlines down on Mosherville Rd. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | $10,000 | Large trees were reported blown down in Litchfield. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | $10,000 | Power lines reported down in the area. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | $5,000 | Hillsdale County Central Dispatch reported trees downed in Litchfield. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | $3,000 | Trees reported blown down. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | Emergency management officials reported power lines down in the area. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Litchfield | - | Numerous roads were flooded in and around Litchfield and Hillsdale with ditches filled and several yards under water. A CoCoRAHs observer reported 5.35 inches of rain from the event. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | Amateur radio operators reported a tree down near the intersection of Hadley and Herring Road. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines down. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | Emergency management officials reported two trees down. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Litchfield | - | Emergency management officials reported numerous roads flooded across the western part of the county, including near the intersection of US 12 and Sand Lake Road. One to three inches of rain fell across portions of this area in roughly two hours. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | Widespread tree damage and power outages reported. A farm barn was flattened and a factory at M49 and Herring Road lost part of its roof. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | Emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Litchfield. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down east of Litchfield. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | Law enforcement reported large trees down across roads northwest of Litchfield. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Litchfield. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | An 8 inch diameter tree down. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | POWER LINES DOWN |
| April 2006 | Hail | Litchfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Litchfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Litchfield | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Litchfield | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Litchfield | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | Litchfield | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mosherville | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Allen | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Jonesville | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Bankers | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Hillsdale | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| Moscow | 13.1 miles | 11 | |
| North Adams | 13.3 miles | 11 | |
| Steamburg | 13.9 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 Litchfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2653321 | 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 630540. 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.
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.






