Editing Blumfield Township, Michigan

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| official_name      = Blumfield Township, Michigan
| settlement_type    = [[Civil township]]
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| image_caption      = Rural farm road within Blumfield Township
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| pushpin_label      = Blumfield Township
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| map_caption        = Location within [[Saginaw County, Michigan|Saginaw County]]
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| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_type1  = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Michigan]]
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| subdivision_name2  = [[Saginaw County, Michigan|Saginaw]]

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| leader_title       = Supervisor
| leader_name        = Wesley Reinbold
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| established_date   = 1853
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| area_total_km2     = 92.3
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| population_total   = 1874
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| elevation_m        = 186
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| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP Code|ZIP code(s)]]
| postal_code        = 48601 ([[Saginaw, Michigan|Saginaw]])<br>48734 ([[Frankenmuth, Michigan|Frankenmuth]])<br>48747 ([[Merritt Township, Michigan|Munger]])<br>48757 ([[Reese, Michigan|Reese]])
| area_code          = [[Area code 989|989]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 26-09400<ref name="GR2">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=2008-01-31 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref>
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'''Blumfield Township''' is a [[civil township]] of [[Saginaw County, Michigan|Saginaw County]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]]. As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 Census]], the township population was 1,874.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Blumfield_township,_Saginaw_County,_Michigan?g=060XX00US2614509400 |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref>

==History==
Blumfield Township was founded in 1853 by Carl Post and George F. Veenfliet named after [[Robert Blum]]. It was the site of one sawmill and several farms around 1880.  At that point it had been primarily settled by immigrants from Germany.<ref>''History of Saginaw County, Michigan'' (Chicago: Charles C. Chapman, 1881) p. 734, 737-738.</ref>  Most of these immigrants were people who had favored the 1848 reforms and left in the wake of their suppression.{{sfn|Romig|1986|page=68}}}

==Communities==
* '''Arthur''', or '''Blumfield Junction''' was a small community with a station on a branch of the [[Michigan Central Railroad]]. A post office operated as Blumfield Junction from May 31, 1862, to October 20, 1880.<ref>{{gnis|2558585|Arthur Post Office (historical), Michigan}}</ref> It reopened as Arthur and operated from December 1880 until October 1904.{{sfn|Romig|1986|page=}} It was located on [[M-15 (Michigan highway)|M-15]] between the junctions with [[M-81 (Michigan highway)|M-81]] to the north and [[M-83 (Michigan highway)|M-83]] to the south.
* '''Blumfield Corners''' is a small [[Unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated community]] on [[M-15 (Michigan highway)|M-15]] at Block Road a few miles northwest of [[Richville, Michigan|Richville]] and about a mile east of the junction with [[M-83 (Michigan highway)|M-83]] and about a mile north of [[M-46 (Michigan highway)|M-46]] at {{Coord|43|25|27|N|83|43|06|W|}}<ref>{{gnis|621658|Blumfield Corners, Michigan}}</ref><ref name="scm">[http://www.michigan.gov/documents/CGI_COUNTY-v4_SAGINAW_COUNTY_125303_7.pdf Saginaw County Map.] J. Shively.  State of Michigan Department of Information Technology Technology Center for Geographic Information.  September 2007.</ref>
* '''Frankentrost''' (once also called '''Trostville''') is a small [[Unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated community]] at [[M-46 (Michigan highway)|M-46]] and Mueller Road a few miles west the junction with [[M-83 (Michigan highway)|M-83]] at {{Coord|43|24|26|N|83|47|31|W|}}.<ref name="scm" /><ref>{{gnis|626406|Frankentrost, Michigan}}</ref>  It was established in 1847 by a community of Lutheran immigrants from Bavaria.{{sfn|Romig|1986|page=209}}
* The village of [[Reese, Michigan|Reese]] is over the eastern boundary in [[Tuscola County, Michigan|Tuscola County]], though some development is in the township.

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the township has a total area of {{convert|35.6|sqmi|km2}}, all land.

==Demographics==
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 2,014 people, 726 households, and 598 families residing in the township.  The population density was {{convert|56.5|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.  There were 757 housing units at an average density of {{convert|21.2|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.  The racial makeup of the township was 98.56% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.25% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.65% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.05% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.50% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.59% of the population.

There were 726 households, out of which 36.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.9% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 4.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.6% were non-families. 14.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.08.

In the township the population was spread out, with 26.2% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 26.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.6 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.3 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $53,182, and the median income for a family was $55,750. Males had a median income of $46,875 versus $29,444 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the township was $22,514.  About 2.5% of families and 3.9% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over.

==Notable people==
*[[Richard Veenfliet]]

==References==
===Notes===
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===Sources===
*{{cite book |first1=Walter |last1=Romig |title=Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |series=Great Lakes Books Series |type=Paperback  |orig-year= 1973 |date=October 1, 1986 |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn=081431838X |location=Detroit, Michigan |id={{ISBN|978-0814318386}} }}
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