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Davison, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan
Population (2000): 5536
Housing Units (2000): 2652
Land area (2000): 1.782172 sq. miles (4.615803 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.782172 sq. miles (4.615803 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19880
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 43.031223 N, 83.516970 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48423
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Davison -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000): 18741
Housing Units (2000): 8093
Land area (2000): 435.440498 sq. miles (1127.785664 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.338042 sq. miles (3.465512 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 436.778540 sq. miles (1131.251176 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.690828 N, 98.076614 W
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Davison County
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Wikipedia
Davison (surname)

Davison is a patronymic surname, a contraction of Davidson, meaning "son of Davie (the pet form of David)". There are alternate spellings, including those common in the British Isles and Scandinavia: Davisson, Daveson, Davidsson, and Davidsen. It is also common as a French, Portuguese, Czech, and Jewish surname. While the given name comes from the Hebrew "David", meaning beloved, Davison is rarely used as a masculine given name or nickname.

Davison

Davison may refer to:

People
  • Davison (surname)
Places

In the United States:

  • Davison, Michigan, a suburb of Flint
  • Davison Township, Michigan
  • Davison Freeway, a highway in Detroit, Michigan
  • Davison County, South Dakota
Other uses
  • Davison Design & Development, an invention promotion firm
  • Davison's leaf-warbler (Phylloscopus davisoni), a bird of southern Asia
  • Davison's, department stores
  • USS Davison (DD-618), a US Navy destroyer

Usage examples of "davison".

Doctor Davison explained to Ruth that the settlement had begun to grow in the parts beyond the railroad and that all this side of the tracks was considered the old part of the town.

I do not know how seriously, for Doctor Davison had not finished examining him when I--I came away," she replied, bravely enough, and hiding the fact that she had been overlooked.

There's them that said he went to Doctor Davison first to find out if I was goin' to git well before he come arter me.

But there had sprung into her mind, full-fledged, the suspicion that Doctor Davison had been the donor of the frocks.

Perhaps it was because of Doctor Davison, for it was notorious that when the good physician set out to do a thing, or to have it done, it was accomplished.

Doctor Davison arrived at about the same time, too, and superintended the removal of the cripple into the house.

She never asked a question of Doctor Davison, or of anybody else, about the strange surgeon, or his opinion of her case.

And then, suddenly, without other warning, Doctor Davison and the strange surgeon who had once examined Mercy, appeared in a big limousine car, with a couch arranged inside, and they whisked Mercy off to a sanitarium some miles away, where she was operated on by the famous surgeon, with Doctor Davison's help, and from which place the report came back in a few days that the operation had been successful and that Mercy Curtis would--in time--walk again!

It pleased him that he had to revise his estimates at the total youth aboard the ship as evidenced by Davison and Hol.

She didn’t need to be an empath to register the eagerness Davison had for visiting a Petraw ship and she could spare the capable woman.

It pleased him that he had to revise his esti­mates at the total youth aboard the ship as evidenced by Davison and Hoi.

She didn't need to be an empath to register the eagerness Davison had for visiting a Petraw ship and she could spare the capable woman.

Their greetings to Davison were self-conscious, and Wanderer felt the looks, heard the buzz at his back.

He got a court order to use Carl's road and build one of his own on down to the Davison homestead, which also fronted the glacier.

And Davison put out his own sign, with a large painting of the blue ice done by his daughter, Clara.