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Ganges is located in the northwest part of the township at the junction of 122nd Ave and Blue Star Highway at Interstate 196 / US 31 is less than a quarter mile to the west, but the nearest access is from M-89 about a mile to the north.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Michigan. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 571 law enforcement agencies employing 19,009 sworn police officers, about 190 for each 100,000 residents.
The state of Michigan is largely divided in the same way as many other U.S. states, but is distinct in its usage of charter townships. Michigan ranks 13th among the fifty states in terms of the number of local governmental entities. The state is divided into 83 counties, and further divided into 1,240 townships, 280 cities, and 253 villages.
In January and February 2014, Swartz Creek City and Gaines Township was contact by Mundy Township Supervisor David L. Guigear in attempt to meet over regionalization of building department, code enforcement, janitorial and especial police. [14] On April 2, 2014, Gaines Township turned down a police department merger with Mundy Township. [15]
In 2000, the Township started its own one officer police department with the assistance of the Michigan State Police Department. [19] In 2013, the police chief turned in a resignation letter March 1. On March 6, the board of trustees voted 3 to 2 to disband its police department with the State Police providing police protection by default. [ 19 ]
Michigan's numbering plan expanded from three area codes in 1947 to twelve: 1947: Area codes 313, 517 and 616 are three of the original 86 area codes in the North American Numbering Plan. 1961: Area code 906 was created in the first split of 616. 1993: Area code 810 was created in the first split of 313.
M-89 is an east–west state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs from near Ganges to Battle Creek. M-89 starts at an interchange with Interstate 196 / US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31) and passes through Allegan , Kalamazoo County, Michigan , and Calhoun counties.
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