Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On November 20, 1984, Avon Township became the City of Rochester Hills. The name of the new city was put to a vote, with the other choice being "Avon Hills." The name "Rochester Hills" won by a landslide with voters, based on the area's historical ties to Rochester and the rolling hills in the area.
Rochester is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 12,711 at the 2010 census. It is a northern suburb in Metro Detroit located 20 miles north of the city of Detroit. [5] Rochester was the first European settlement in Oakland County when it was founded in 1818.
Rank County Per capita income Median household income Median family income Population Number of households 1 Oakland: $56,138 $85,991 $94,783 1,202,362
Shelby Township is in western Macomb County and is bordered to the west by the cities of Rochester and Rochester Hills in Oakland County. The cities of Utica and Sterling Heights border the township to the south. Mount Clemens, the Macomb county seat, is 11 miles (18 km) to the southeast, and downtown Detroit is 24 miles (39 km) to the south.
Below is a table of United States congressional district boundary maps for the State of Michigan, presented chronologically forward. [5] All redistricting events that took place in Michigan in the decades between 1973 and 2013 are shown.
The community has its own post office with the 49306 ZIP Code. It was platted in 1874. [5] Chauncey (also known as Buena Vista and Imperial Mills) is an unincorporated, also mostly historical settlement on the eastern boundary with Cannon Township where Bear Creek enters the Grand River.
Oakland Township's northern half has its own zip code, "Oakland, Michigan, 48363", while the southern portion of the township shares zip code 48306 with the northernmost portion of adjacent Rochester Hills.
M-150 (Rochester Road) serves as a spur highway from M-59 into the city of Rochester. Grand River Avenue connects the suburbs of Brighton, Novi, and Farmington to downtown Detroit. The avenue follows the route of old US 16 before I-96 replaced it in 1962. It is one of the five roads planned by Judge August Woodward to radiate out from Detroit ...