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Belknap Lookout area officially became a neighborhood in 1926. Named after Charles E. Belknap - First Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America, mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1884, and U.S. Congressmen in 1888. Coit Elementary School was built in 1880 and is the oldest operating school building in the state of Michigan.
The second-largest city in Michigan, Grand Rapids recorded a murder rate of 13.8 per 100,000 in 2020, more than double of the United States rate of 7.8 per 100,000. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The overall crime rate declined by one-third between 2003 and 2011, [ 14 ] but Grand Rapids set a record with 38 homicides in 2020.
The Grand Rapids Police Department was established in 1871 with eight patrolmen operating under one chief. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The police department originally operated under the direction of the mayor and city council, though a separate board of commissioners was created for police and fire department in 1881, initially creating conflict between city ...
Website. GrandRapidsMI.gov. Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. [4] At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,893, [5] making it the second-most populous city in Michigan, after Detroit. Grand Rapids is the central city of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, which has a population of ...
The Grand Rapids metropolitan area is a triangular shaped Metro Triplex, in West Michigan, which fans out westward from the primary hub city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the other two metro hubs of Muskegon and Holland. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1,059,113 in 2017. [ 3 ] The region, noted in particular for its western ...
Description. Heritage Hill is adjacent to downtown Grand Rapids and is the city's oldest residential district. Its 1,300 homes date from 1843 and represent Michigan's largest and finest concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth-century houses. Nearly every style of American architecture, from Greek Revival to Prairie is represented.
Heartside. Heritage Hill Historic District (Grand Rapids, Michigan) Categories: Neighborhoods in Michigan. Geography of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1626374 [4] Website. Official website. Grand Rapids Charter Township is a charter township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 18,905 at the 2020 census. [2] The township is bordered by Grand Rapids to the west and East Grand Rapids to the southwest, but the township is administered autonomously.