Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Utica, MI

Utica is a small city of 1.78 square miles in western Macomb County, and the Clinton River flows right through the center of town on its way to Lake St. Clair.

Revolutionary War veteran Nathaniel Squire settled the site in 1817, and Joseph Stead platted the village in 1829 under the name 'Harlow'; the community was also called Hog's Hollow and McDougalville before New York settlers renamed it Utica after their home city in New York.

Utica was one of the first half-dozen Michigan villages to incorporate after the state allowed village incorporation in 1838, and it became a city in 1937.

Utica's early boom years were tied to the Clinton River and the partially built Clinton–Kalamazoo Canal, an ambitious 1837 project meant to cross the entire Lower Peninsula.

By the 1940s, Utica was the center of a dairy-farming and truck-garden region, operating a flour mill and shipping rhubarb.

Devastating fires in 1905 and 1906 destroyed much of early Utica, so few buildings in its Cass Avenue historic district predate 1906.

The 2020 census counted 5,245 people in Utica, living in 2,469 households.

Downtown Utica is home to UWM Field, opened in 2016 as Jimmy John's Field, the single ballpark shared by all four teams of the independent United Shore Professional Baseball League, including the Utica Unicorns.

Despite its small size, Utica lends its name to Utica Community Schools, the large district that operates Utica High School and serves Utica, Sterling Heights, and Shelby Township.

Utica sits at the crossroads of the M-53 freeway and M-59 (Hall Road), about 21 miles north of downtown Detroit.