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Area code: 616: FIPS code: 26-06900 [3] GNIS feature ID: 1625907 [2] Website: www.ci.belding.mi.us: Belding is a city in Ionia County in the U.S. state of Michigan, ...
Belding is an incorporated city situated within the northeast corner of the township. Cooks Corners is the location of an early settlement in the township at 43°05′18″N 85°15′45″W / 43.08833°N 85.26250°W / 43.08833; -85.26250 [ 4 ] near the junction of M-44 and M-91 just west of Belding
Ionia County (/ aɪ ˈ oʊ n j ə / eye-OH-nyə) is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan.As of the 2020 census, the population was 66,804. [2] The county seat is Ionia. [3] The Ionia County Courthouse was designed by Claire Allen, a prominent southern Michigan architect.
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36.95 sq mi (95.70 km 2) • Land: ... ZIP code(s) 48809 ... The majority of the township is served by Belding Area School District to the east in Ionia ...
In 1860, Hiram H. Belding and his brother Alva N. Belding started selling spooled silk from a base in what is now Belding, aided by a third brother, Milo M. Belding, who living in Ashfield, Massachusetts. This retail trade was an immense success, and in 1866 Belding Brothers began manufacturing silk thread in Rockville, Connecticut.
The Pere Marquette Railway Belding Depot is a former railroad station located at 100 Depot Street in Belding, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [ 1 ] It is owned and used by the city of Belding.
Alvah Belding died in 1925, and the silk mills were sold. As the Great Depression worsened, the mills were closed by 1932. During this time, the library was a social center for the city, used by the unemployed in Belding. Belding slowly emerged from the Depression, but was no longer the single-industry town it had been before.