Editing Deventer (section)

== Geography ==
[[File:Deventer-plaats-OpenTopo.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Dutch Topographic map of Deventer (city), June 2014]]
Associated hamlets at second level
[[File:Linde Deventer NL.jpg|upright|thumb|Linde in Lettele]]
[[File:Oude Molen Deventer NL.jpg|upright|thumb|Oude Molen (''old mill'')]]

The population centres in the municipality are:
* '''Deventer''' ''(see below)''
** Snippeling ''(a small community about 2&nbsp;km east of the city centre)''
** De Worp, the quarter west of the IJssel river
* '''Colmschate''' ''(Deventer suburb quarters surrounding eponymous village 4&nbsp;km east of the city centre, ice skating hall, small railway station)''
** De Bannink
** Oxe
* '''[[Diepenveen]]''', a village 4&nbsp;km to the north, surrounded by forest
** Molenbelt
** Rande
** Tjoene
* '''[[Lettele]]''', in a forest area
** Linde
** Oude Molen (''old mill'')
** Zandbelt
* '''Okkenbroek'''
* '''[[Schalkhaar]]''' ''(former centre of Diepenveen municipality including Lettele and Okkenbroek until 1999)''
** Averlo
** Frieswijk
*'''[[Bathmen]]''' ''(independent municipality until 2005)''
** Apenhuizen
**Dortherhoek
**Loo
**Pieriksmars
**Zuidloo

=== Climate ===
Deventer is in the [[Northern Hemisphere|northern hemisphere]]. Summer here starts at the end of June and ends in September. Deventer experiences an [[oceanic climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification]] ''Cfb'') similar to almost all of the [[Netherlands]].{{Weather box
| location = Deventer
| Mar precipitation mm = 60.0
| Sep precipitation mm = 70.0
| Aug precipitation mm = 83.0
| Jul precipitation mm = 86.0
| Jun precipitation mm = 74.0
| May precipitation mm = 67.0
| Apr precipitation mm = 55
| Feb precipitation mm = 58.0
| Nov precipitation mm = 66.0
| Jan precipitation mm = 71.0
| precipitation colour = green
| year low C = 7.0
| Dec low C = 1.8
| Nov low C = 4.7
| Oct low C = 8.4
| Oct precipitation mm = 66.0
| Dec precipitation mm = 74.0
| Aug low C = 13.9
| Aug sun = 208.8
| source = Climate-Data.org <ref>{{cite web
|url = https://en.climate-data.org/europe/the-netherlands/overijssel/deventer-1006821/
|title = Climate Deventer (The Netherlands)
|access-date = October 22, 2021}}</ref>
| year sun = 1819.2
| Dec sun = 69.6
| Nov sun = 86.4
| Oct sun = 124.8
| Sep sun = 165.6
| Jul sun = 235.2
| year precipitation mm = 830.0
| Jun sun = 228.0
| May sun = 216.0
| Apr sun = 189.6
| Mar sun = 127.2
| Feb sun = 96.0
| Jan sun = 72.0
| Sep low C = 11.6
| Jul low C = 14.2
| single line = y
| Jul high C = 22.4
| year high C = 13.8
| Dec high C = 6.0
| Nov high C = 9.3
| Oct high C = 14.3
| Sep high C = 18.8
| Aug high C = 21.8
| Jun high C = 20.5
| Feb mean C = 3.3
| May high C = 17.8
| Apr high C = 14.1
| Mar high C = 9.6
| Feb high C = 6.3
| Jan high C = 5.3
| metric first = y
| Jan mean C = 3.1
| Mar mean C = 5.8
| Jun low C = 11.9
| Dec mean C = 3.9
| May low C = 9.0
| Apr low C = 5.2
| Mar low C = 2.2
| Feb low C = 0.7
| Jan low C = 0.9
| year mean C = 10.4
| Nov mean C = 7.0
| Apr mean C = 9.7
| Oct mean C = 11.2
| Sep mean C = 15.1
| Aug mean C = 17.9
| Jul mean C = 18.4
| Jun mean C = 16.4
| May mean C = 13.6
| date = December 2012
}}

=== Water ===
[[File:Uiterwaarden nabij deventer TN.jpg|thumb|Floodplains near Deventer]]
The Deventer settlement was founded on a river dune on the [[IJssel]]. This river has played a major role for the city over the centuries, because of the trade that this waterway brought with it. In 1241 the city had received the Katentol on long lease from the Elten stift. This toll, which is named after the Katerveer under [[Zwolle]], had to be paid in the Deventer toll house near the Zandpoort, and generated a lot of money in the [[Middle Ages]].

The IJssel has also caused many problems over the centuries, because it often overflowed its banks. Nowadays Deventer has a flood defence, but the Welle ('wal', the name of the street over the quay) is still regularly under water during high water. Dike breaches of the IJssel have created many gullies in and around the city , such as the Douwelerkolk and the Klinkenbeltskolk.

In addition to the IJssel, Deventer has a large number of waters. The [[Schipbeek]] is a brook partly dug on behalf of the city that rises in [[Germany]] and flows into the IJssel near Deventer. In the past, the stream was navigable, so that wood and Bentheimer sandstone could be brought in, among other things. Another waterway that was built for shipping and which flows into the IJssel in Deventer is a branch of the Overijssels canal, through which Deventer was connected to a large system of canals through Overijssel. It was dug in the mid-19th century and opened in 1858.