Editing Burton, Michigan (section)

===Township===
The City of Burton was organized as '''Burton Township''', in 1855. Burton Township had first been a part of Flint Township. The North part of Burton was part of [[Kearsley Township, Michigan|Kearsley Township]] along with the Southern part of [[Genesee Township, Michigan|Genesee Township]] from 1839 until 1843 when the township was merged back (for school purposes) into [[Flint Township, Michigan|Flint Township]].<ref name="Wood 1916"/><ref name="Elis"/> When the [[Flint, Michigan|City of Flint]] incorporated, Burton Township was separated from Flint Township by the Genesee County Board of Supervisors on October 12, 1855, although the first township meeting did not take place until April 7, 1856, which is sometimes taken as the actual date of organization.<ref name="Elis"/> On December 13, 1861, a post office was opened with Horace L. Donelson as postmaster and only operated until August 6 of the next year.<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=1986 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=9780814318386 |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-FPXEGRo-YC&q=Mungerville&pg=PA90 |access-date=February 28, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

Over the years, large portions of the northern and western sides of the township were annexed by the City of Flint for revenues.