CHARLOTTE, a city of Michigan, U.S.A., 18m. S.W. of Lansing; on Federal highway 27, and served by the Grank Trunk and the Michigan Central railways; the county seat of Eaton county. The population in 1920 was 5,126; 1930 it was 5,307. It has varied manufacturing industries, and is the trade centre of a rich agricultural and dairying region, which raises large quan tities of beans.