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Davison is a small city in Genesee County, a suburb east of Flint that is completely surrounded by Davison Township but governs itself independently.

The city is nicknamed the "City of Flags," a motto celebrated each summer at its annual Festival of Flags.

Davison was named after Judge Norman Davison, a Lapeer County judge and delegate to Michigan's 1835 state constitutional convention who lived in a nearby hamlet once called Davisonville.

The settlement began as Davison Station in 1842, and its growth took off in 1871 when the Chicago and Lake Huron Railroad line was completed through town and the township's first sawmill was built there the same year.

A post office opened at Davison Station on April 10, 1872, and the name was shortened to simply Davison in 1893.

Davison incorporated as a village on May 20, 1889, survived an 1894 fire that wiped out a downtown section dubbed "Rotten Row," and incorporated as a city on December 5, 1938.

From 1919 until 1938, the Genesee County Fair was held nearly every year at Davison's Rosemoor Park, whose racetrack hosted first horse and later automobile races before closing for good in 1943.

Davison had 5,143 residents in the 2020 census, living in 2,470 households within just under 2 square miles — down from its peak of 6,087 residents in 1980.

Filmmaker Michael Moore grew up in Davison and graduated from Davison High School in 1972, and "Miracle on Ice" hockey defenseman Ken Morrow was also raised in the city.

The Davison area's biggest green space is the Jack N. Abernathy Regional Park on the city's west edge, and just beyond it in Davison Township the Lake Callis Recreation Complex, opened in 2015, offers a 20-acre lake with a swimming beach and a 100-by-100-foot splash pad.