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Mecosta County is home to over 100 lakes, rivers, and streams with the Muskegon River winding its way through the county seat and largest city Big Rapids (originally named Leonard). [5] Mecosta County was set off on April 1, 1840, [6] but remained attached for administrative purposes to Kent County until 1857, when it was attached to Newaygo ...
Mecosta is a village in Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 386 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] down from 457 in 2010 . The village is within Morton Township .
Mecosta vicinity July 17, 1970: Nisbett Building† 101 South Michigan Avenue Big Rapids: August 12, 1977: Old Mecosta Jail House: 220 South Warren Avenue Big Rapids: February 21, 1975: Paris Fish Hatchery: Paris Park, Northland Road (old US-131), between 22 Mile and 23 Mile roads Paris vicinity February 23, 1978: Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church
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Big Rapids, the Mecosta county seat, is 4 miles (6 km) north of Mecosta Township's northern border. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 35.9 square miles (93 km 2 ), of which 34.0 square miles (88 km 2 ) are land and 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2 ), or 5.33%, are water. [ 1 ]
Canadian Lakes is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The area is mostly within the southwest portion of Morton Township, southwest of Mecosta and east of Stanwood. As of the 2020 census, the CDP population was 3,202, [2] up from 2,756 in 2010.
Mecosta County, Michigan is named for him. [2] Mecosta is best known as a signer of the Treaty of Logansport (7 Stat. 501) on April 22, 1836, which ceded lands reserved in the Treaty of Tippecanoe, and began the removal of Mecosta's band of Potawatomi from Indiana to lands west of the Mississippi River, as part of the Potawatomi Trail of Death.
The township is in southern Mecosta County and is bordered to the south by Montcalm County. The village of Morley sits on the township's western border, extending west into Aetna Township . According to the U.S. Census Bureau , Deerfield Township has a total area of 35.9 square miles (93 km 2 ), of which 35.7 square miles (92 km 2 ) are land ...