| Size: 572 Square Miles |
| Elevation: 700-900 Feet |
| Physiography: Rolling plains |
| Growing Season: 140-160 days |
| Annual Precipitation: 30-32 inches |
| Average Snowfall: 40-60 inches |
| Forest Type: Oak-Hickory, Maple-Beech, Elm-Ash-Cottonwood |
| Fall Colors: Early October |
| The county is named after DeWitt Clinton who was the New York Governor and Father of the Erie Canal. Farmers settled in the area in 1830's. St John's became the county's largest community when the railroad arrived. After the Civil War, Zachariah Chandler bought 3,000 acres of land. He built many ditches to drain off a lot of the swampland. During the late 1800's farming grew in the area. In 1930's the peppermint industry grew but the disease of veticillium wilt hurt that. Today it is a small spearmint industry. The Maple River was picked for the first major wetland restoration project by the Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundation. The project completed in 1984 and restored hundreds of acres of wetlands along the river. |
| Bath (48808) | Bengal | Carland (48831) |
| DeWitt (48820) | Eagle (48822) | Elsie (48831) |
| Eureka (48833) | Fowler (48835) | Gunnisonville |
| Hubbardston (48845) | Maple Rapids (48853) | Matherton |
| Olive | Ovid (48866) | Pewamo (48873) |
| Price | Riley | Saint Johns (48879) |
| Shepardville | Victor | Wacousta |
| Westphalia (48894) |  |
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