Editing Ada Township, Michigan (section)

==Communities==
Ada, also known as Ada Village, is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] within the township. It is located on [[M-21 (Michigan highway)|M-21]], about {{convert|12|mi}} east of [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]].  Ada contains its own post office with the 49301 ZIP Code that serves the majority of the township.  Ada was settled as early as 1821 when [[Rix Robinson]] built a trading post near the area to trade furs with a local [[Odawa|Ottawa]] village.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":12" />  Robinson made the first land purchase here in 1833, and a settlement developed along the [[Thornapple River]]. A post office was established in 1837. Both the township and village settlement were named for Ada Smith, the daughter of the first postmaster. The settlement was given a station on the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad (later part of the [[Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway]]). A [[plat]] was recorded in 1857.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Romig |first1=Walter |title=Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |date=October 1, 1986 |work= |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn=0-8143-1838-X |series=Great Lakes Books Series |location=Detroit, Michigan |type=Paperback |orig-year=1973}}</ref>

[[Forest Hills, Michigan|Forest Hills]] is an unincorporated community and [[census-designated place]] (CDP) that occupies the majority of the township for statistical purposes.  The CDP occupies {{convert|32.99|sqmi|sqkm|2}} (or 88.90%) of the township.  Forest Hills also occupies a large portion of [[Cascade Township, Michigan|Cascade Township]] to the south and is the [[List of census-designated places in Michigan|largest and most-populated CDP]] in the state.