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Michigan is divided into 83 counties and contains 1,773 municipalities consisting of 276 cities, 257 villages, and 1,240 townships. [2] The largest municipality by population in Michigan is Detroit with 639,111 residents; [ 1 ] the smallest municipality by population is Pointe Aux Barques Township with 15 residents. [ 3 ]
A unique form of civil township in Michigan is the charter township, a status created by act of the state legislature in 1947, which grants additional powers and streamlined administration of townships. Charter townships that meet certain criteria are also provided greater protection against annexation by a city or village.
This category is for townships in the U.S. state of Michigan.It is intended to be comprehensive of all currently existing townships in Michigan. Charter townships should be placed in both this category and Category:Charter townships in Michigan.
In Michigan, these remaining townships included Bloomfield, Canton, Carrollton, Clinton, Grosse Ile, Harrison, Plymouth, Redford, Shelby, Waterford, and West Bloomfield. These townships are no longer classified as CDPs, and there are no municipalities in the state that carry the CDP designation.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Townships in Michigan. It includes townships that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a container category .
Michigan has created charter townships as a separate type of government to allow greater flexibility for township governments to serve urbanized populations. In Michigan, as in other states with like systems (though sometimes different names), a township is an administrative division of a county, which is an administrative division of the state.
G. Gaines Township, Kent County, Michigan; Garfield Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan; Genesee Township, Michigan; Genoa Township, Michigan; Georgetown ...
A charter township is a form of local government in the U.S. state of Michigan.While all townships in Michigan are organized governments, a charter township has been granted a charter, which allows it certain rights and responsibilities of home rule that are generally intermediate between those of a city (a semi-autonomous jurisdiction in Michigan) and a village.