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Dimondale is a village in Eaton County, located within Windsor Charter Township on the Grand River just southwest of Lansing, for which it serves as a suburb.

Before white settlement began in the 1830s, the Potawatomi maintained a permanent camp along the Grand River in the Dimondale area.

Isaac M. Dimond arrived in 1848 and built a dam on the Grand River by 1852, followed by a sawmill and, in 1856, a grist mill.

The village was platted and named Dimondale on August 6, 1856, and its borders form a rough diamond shape on the map, with streets running diagonally instead of on the usual north-south, east-west grid.

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway reached Dimondale in 1878, and remains of its trestle can still be seen in the Grand River.

Dimondale incorporated as a village in 1906, when it was already thriving with seven stores, two millinery shops, a grist mill, a sawmill, and several machine shops.

Dimondale had its own high school from 1929 until 1963, when the district merged into the Holt School District.

In the 1960s and 1970s Dimondale was a nationally recognized hotspot for championship horseshoe pitching, earning the nickname "Horseshoe Capital of the World," and it hosted the Michigan state tournament in 1965.

Dimondale had 1,134 residents at the 2020 census, and the 2010 census counted 504 households in the village.

The village covers only about 0.94 square miles, yet sits within Windsor Charter Township, which had 7,140 residents in 2020.