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Owosso is the largest city in Shiawassee County in the U. S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,714 at the 2020 census. The city is mostly surrounded by Owosso Township on its west, but the two are administered autonomously. The city was named after Chief Wosso, an Ojibwe leader of the Shiawassee area.

Alfred L. and Benjamin O. Williams were early European American settlers in the area. They were joined by Elias Comstock, who built the first permanent home in the settlement. Owosso was incorporated as a city in 1859, at which time it had 1000 people. The city's first mayor was Amos Gould, a judge originally from New York. Many other settlers also migrated across the Northern Tier from New York and New England. In 1876, the city organized its fire department. The pattern of settlement and migration resulted in a majority white city. In the 1950s, Owosso was reported by a major Montgomery, Alabama, newspaper to be a sundown town, where African Americans were not allowed to live or stay overnight.

The city is on the Shiawassee River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.39 square miles (14 km2), of which 5.25 square miles (14 km2) is land and 0.14 square miles (0 km2) (2.60%) is water.

Owosso experiences frigid winters, with the last snow usually falling in April, typically Northern Midwestern spring thaws, balmy to hot summers, and colorful falls, with the first snows usually occurring sometimes in December but typically in January. Each year Owosso averages eleven days with temperatures below , and nine days with temperatures above Owosso averages twenty nine inches of rain per year, and forty one inches of snow. The average growing season in Owosso is 144 days.

The city has a council–manager form of government. Owosso is served by the Shiawassee District Library branch.

The former John Wesley College began in 1949 as Owosso Bible College, and closed in 1981. Education is provided by the Owosso Public Schools, which owns the historic Lincoln School on Michigan Avenue south of M 21. Owosso High School is the sole high school in the city. Salem Lutheran School is a grade school (Pre K 8) of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Owosso.

The Shiawassee Area Transportation Agency (SATA) provides city bus service. The majority of buses are lift equipped, and the service operates from 6:00 a. m. to 10:00 p. m. on Mondays through Fridays. The service also provides a single daily bus run to and from Perry, Michigan, and another to and from Durand, Michigan.

Owosso is the headquarters of Indian Trails Bus Lines, which provides regularly scheduled intercity bus service from Owosso to connect with points throughout Michigan and the U. S. Indian Trails also provides chartered bus service to and from points throughout the U. S.

Owosso Community Airport provides a 4300 feet (1311 m) long lighted runway for private planes and air taxi services.

Owosso is the headquarters of the Great Lakes Central Railroad, which provides freight service to Northern and Southern Michigan. It also provides chartered passenger rail service and tours through its association with Lake Central Rail Tours. Owosso was the location of three different railroad stations for different railroad companies: Ann Arbor Railroad (Elberta, Michigan Toledo, Ohio); New York Central Railroad, nee Michigan Central (Bay City Jackson) and Grand Trunk Western (Muskegon Detroit).