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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.

Litchfield within Hillsdale County

Population over time

2 figures

Litchfield 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,369
20201,399+30 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

10 since 2018

Regional 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/undetermined7
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesHOMER FD 169 - 2019
19 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2020-63 - 2020
12 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2020-54 - 2020
20 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2018-20 - 2018
14 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2018-18 - 2018
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2018-17 - 2018
28 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2020-25 - 2020
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLITCHFIELD FD 2019-29 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsdale County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLitchfield$10,000Report of powerlines down on Mosherville Rd.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLitchfield$10,000Large trees were reported blown down in Litchfield.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLitchfield$10,000Power lines reported down in the area.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindLitchfield$5,000Hillsdale County Central Dispatch reported trees downed in Litchfield.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLitchfield$3,000Trees reported blown down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-Emergency management officials reported power lines down in the area.
September 2013Flash FloodLitchfield-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 2011Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-Amateur radio operators reported a tree down near the intersection of Hadley and Herring Road.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines down.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-Emergency management officials reported two trees down.
May 2010Flash FloodLitchfield-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 2010Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-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 2003Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-Emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Litchfield.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down east of Litchfield.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-Law enforcement reported large trees down across roads northwest of Litchfield.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Litchfield.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-An 8 inch diameter tree down.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-POWER LINES DOWN
April 2006HailLitchfield-no account filed
May 2005HailLitchfield-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLitchfield-no account filed
May 1998HailLitchfield-no account filed
July 1997HailLitchfield-no account filed
September 1994HailLitchfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hillsdale 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
Mosherville5.3 miles11
Allen6.0 miles11
Jonesville6.5 miles10
Bankers10.7 miles10
Hillsdale10.9 miles10
Moscow13.1 miles11
North Adams13.3 miles11
Steamburg13.9 miles11

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 LitchfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2653321The 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.