Editing Chelsea, Michigan

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{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Chelsea, Michigan
| official_name            = City of Chelsea
| settlement_type          = [[City]]
| motto                           = A city of history, a city of pride
| image_skyline                   = Downtown Chelsea, Michigan.jpg
| imagesize                       = 275
| image_caption                   = [[Chelsea Commercial Historic District]]
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| map_caption                     = Location within [[Washtenaw County, Michigan|Washtenaw County]]
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| subdivision_name                = United States
| subdivision_type1               = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_type2               = [[List of counties in Michigan|County]]
| subdivision_name1               = [[Michigan]]
| subdivision_name2               = [[Washtenaw County, Michigan|Washtenaw]]
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| established_title               = Incorporated
| established_date                = 1889 (village)<br>2004 (city)
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| government_type                 = [[Council–manager government|Council–manager]]
| leader_title                    = [[Mayor]]
| leader_name                     = Jane Pacheco  
| leader_title1                   = [[Municipal clerk|Clerk]]
| leader_name1                    = Lynn Sebestyen
| unit_pref                       = Imperial
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| area_total_km2                  = 9.50
| area_total_sq_mi                = 3.67
| area_land_km2                   = 9.37
| area_land_sq_mi                 = 3.62
| area_water_km2                  = 0.13
| area_water_sq_mi                = 0.05
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| elevation_m                     = 284
| elevation_ft                    = 932
| population_total                = 5467
| population_as_of                = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
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| population_density_km2          = 583.68
| population_density_sq_mi        = 1511.89
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| postal_code                     = 48118
| area_code                       = [[Area code 734|734]]
| website                         = {{URL|https://city-chelsea.org}}
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| timezone                        = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|Eastern (EST)]]
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| utc_offset_DST                  = -4
| blank_name                      = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
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'''Chelsea''' is a [[city]] in [[Washtenaw County, Michigan|Washtenaw County]] in the U.S. state of [[Michigan]]. The population was 5,467 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="Census 2020">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/chelseacitymichigan,US/PST045219 |title=US Census QuickFacts|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=August 13, 2021 }}</ref>

==History==
The area was first settled as early as 1820 within the [[Michigan Territory]] by settler Cyrus Beckwith.  It would be organized as [[Sylvan Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan|Sylvan Township]] in 1834.  The [[Michigan Central Railroad]] constructed a line through the area in 1848, and a post office was first established on January 4, 1849.  It was originally named Kendon. The name was changed to Chelsea on July 19, 1850 when the train station opened and community was formally platted.  The name Chelsea came from Elisha Congdon, who suggested the name after his hometown of [[Chelsea, Massachusetts]].  Chelsea incorporated as a village in 1889.<ref>{{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-date= 1973 |date=October 1, 1986 |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn = 978-0-8143-1838-6 |location=Detroit, Michigan| page=112}}</ref>  The Chelsea courthouse is housed in a 120-year-old bank building in downtown.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/02/officials-debate-future-of-chelsea-courthouse-in-120-year-old-bank-building.html |newspaper=[[MLive]] |title=Officials debate future of Chelsea courthouse in 120 year old bank building |date=February 12, 2022}}</ref>

The village of Chelsea incorporated into a city in 2004.  In 2011, the downtown area of Chelsea was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as the [[Chelsea Commercial Historic District]].

In April 2025, some 300 residents of the town formed a human chain to help move 9,100 books for a bookstore to a new location.<ref name="g610">{{cite web | title=Michigan town forms human chain to move 9,100 books for shop | website=BBC News | date=2025-04-16 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj45yl5dy42o | access-date=2025-04-18}}</ref><ref name="x475">{{cite web | title=See how a Michigan town moved 9,100 books one by one to their new home | website=AP News | date=2025-04-15 | url=https://apnews.com/article/bookstore-book-brigade-chelsea-michigan-03c553623c91c16a272b8a8149e4c298 | access-date=2025-04-18}}</ref><ref name="a889">{{cite web | title=A Michigan community takes a novel approach to moving 9,100 books for shop's next chapter | website=NBC News | date=2025-04-15 | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-bookstore-move-serendipity-rcna201441 | access-date=2025-04-18}}</ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|3.67|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|3.62|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.05|sqmi|sqkm|2}} (1.36%) is water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020"/>

The [[Border-to-Border Trail]] runs through the city.<ref>{{cite web|last=Border to Border|url=https://b2btrail.org/explore-the-trail/|title=Explore the Border to Border Trail|date=2022|accessdate=July 12, 2022}}</ref>

===Major highways===
*{{jct|state=MI|I|94}} forms the southernmost boundary of the city
*{{jct|state=MI|MI|52|name1=Main Street}} runs south–north through the center of the city.

===Climate===
This [[climate|climatic]] region has large, varying seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters.   According to the [[Köppen Climate Classification]] system, Chelsea has a [[humid continental climate]], abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=205102&cityname=Chelsea,%20Michigan,%20United%20States%20of%20America&units=|title=Chelsea, Michigan Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)|access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>

===Climate===
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| Jan record high F  =62
| Feb record high F  =72
| Mar record high F  =87
| Apr record high F  =86
| May record high F  =95
| Jun record high F  =99
| Jul record high F  =101
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| Jan avg record high F  = 52
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| Mar avg record high F  = 67
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| Jan high F  =30.6
| Feb high F  =34.0
| Mar high F  =44.3
| Apr high F  =57.5
| May high F  =69.5
| Jun high F  =78.8
| Jul high F  =82.3
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| Sep high F  =74.1
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| Jan mean F  =23.5
| Feb mean F  =25.7
| Mar mean F  =34.9
| Apr mean F  =47.1
| May mean F  =58.6
| Jun mean F  =67.7
| Jul mean F  =71.4
| Aug mean F  =69.6
| Sep mean F  =62.5
| Oct mean F  =50.6
| Nov mean F  =39.0
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| Jan low F  =16.4
| Feb low F  =17.4
| Mar low F  =25.4
| Apr low F  =36.6
| May low F  =47.6
| Jun low F  =56.5
| Jul low F  =60.6
| Aug low F  =58.9
| Sep low F  =51.0
| Oct low F  =40.2
| Nov low F  =30.8
| Dec low F  =22.6
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| Jan avg record low F  = -5
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| Mar avg record low F  = 6
| Apr avg record low F  = 22
| May avg record low F  = 31
| Jun avg record low F  = 43
| Jul avg record low F  = 48
| Aug avg record low F  = 47
| Sep avg record low F  = 37
| Oct avg record low F  = 26
| Nov avg record low F  = 15
| Dec avg record low F  = 4
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| Feb record low F  =-25
| Mar record low F  =-10
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| Jul record low F  =44
| Aug record low F  =43
| Sep record low F  =31
| Oct record low F  =22
| Nov record low F  =0
| Dec record low F  =-16
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| Feb precipitation inch  =1.98
| Mar precipitation inch  =2.24
| Apr precipitation inch  =3.01
| May precipitation inch  =3.83
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| Jul precipitation inch  =3.45
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| Oct precipitation inch  =3.14
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|source = [[NOAA]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Station: CHELSEA, MI US USC00201502 |url=https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&stations=USC00201502&format=pdf&dataTypes=MLY-TMAX-NORMAL,MLY-TMIN-NORMAL,MLY-TAVG-NORMAL,MLY-PRCP-NORMAL,MLY-SNOW-NORMAL |access-date=30 December 2024 |website=Summary of Monthly Normals 1991-2020 |publisher=[[NCEI|National Centers for Environmental Information]] |pages=1–3 |format=PDF}}</ref> (snow depth and extremes<ref>{{Cite web |title=Monthly summarized data: Chelsea, MI |url=https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=dtx |access-date=30 December 2024 |website=NOWData - NOAA Online Weather Data |publisher=[[National Weather Service]] |no-pp=y}}</ref>)
|date = December 2024
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==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1870= 1013
|1880= 1160
|1890= 1356
|1900= 1635
|1910= 1764
|1920= 2079
|1930= 2268
|1940= 2246
|1950= 2580
|1960= 3355
|1970= 3858
|1980= 3816
|1990= 3772
|2000= 4398
|2010= 4944
|2020= 5467
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}

===2010 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name ="wwwcensusgov">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2012-11-25}}</ref> of 2010, there were 4,944 people, 2,224 households, and 1,284 families living in the city. The [[population density]] was {{convert|1362.0|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|1}}. There were 2,436 housing units at an average density of {{convert|671.1|/sqmi|/km2|1}}. The racial makeup of the city was 96.1% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.4% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.3% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 1.1% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.6% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 1.5% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] residents of any race were 2.5% of the population.

There were 2,224 households, of which 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 42.3% were non-families. 37.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.18 and the average family size was 2.91.

The median age in the city was 43.5 years. 22.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 4.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24% were from 25 to 44; 25.9% were from 45 to 64; and 22.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 45.5% male and 54.5% female.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 4,398 people, 1,840 households, and 1,133 families living in the village.  The population density was {{convert|1,315.3|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.  There were 1,913 housing units at an average density of {{convert|572.1|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}.  The racial makeup of the village was 97.14% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.70% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.27% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.48% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.07% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.39% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.95% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] residents of any race were 0.82% of the population.

There were 1,840 households, out of which 29.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.3% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.4% were non-families. 35.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.95.

In the village, 23.6% of the population was under the age of 18, 5.2% was from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 24.0% was 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 82.9 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 75.0 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $51,132, and the median income for a family was $72,266. Males had a median income of $50,506 versus $35,579 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the village was $27,609.  About 2.5% of families and 4.3% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 2.9% of those under age 18 and 5.0% of those age 65 or over.

==Economy==
[[File:Chelsea_Milling_Company,_201_West_North_Street,_Chelsea,_Michigan-Jiffy_Mixes_-_panoramio.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Jiffy mix|Jiffy]] headquarters in Chelsea]]
Chelsea Milling Company, maker of [[Jiffy Mix]], is based in Chelsea. Other employers include [[Trinity Health Michigan]], and the [[Chrysler Proving Grounds]].

==Education==
The city is home to the [[Chelsea School District]], which covers the city and surrounding rural townships.<ref>{{cite web|last=Michigan Geographic Framework|url=http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/mgdl/pdfmaps/CountySchools/SD_BYCO_esize_WASHTENAW%20COUNTY.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821052228/http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/mgdl/pdfmaps/CountySchools/SD_BYCO_esize_WASHTENAW%20COUNTY.pdf |archive-date=2014-08-21 |url-status=live|title=Washtenaw County School Districts|date=15 November 2013|accessdate=July 22, 2021}}</ref>  [[Chelsea High School (Michigan)|Chelsea High School]] is located within the city.

The Chelsea District Library serves residents of the city and [[Dexter Township, Michigan|Dexter]], [[Lima Township, Michigan|Lima]], [[Lyndon Township, Michigan|Lyndon]], and [[Sylvan Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan|Sylvan]] townships.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who We Are |url=https://chelseadistrictlibrary.org/about-us/who-we-are/ |accessdate=2023-05-08 |work=Chelsea District Library}}</ref> In 2008, the library was named "Best Small Library in America" by [[Library Journal]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=John N. Berry, III |date=1 February 2008 |title=Best Small Library in America 2008: Chelsea District Library-A Michigan Model |url=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/awards/best-small-library-in-america-2008-chelsea-district-library-a-michigan-model/#_ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911194339/http://lj.libraryjournal.com/awards/best-small-library-in-america-2008-chelsea-district-library-a-michigan-model/#_ |archive-date=2012-09-11 |access-date= |website=Library Journal}}</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[Lynn Allen]], NFL player
*[[Dwight E. Beach]], U.S. Army general and namesake of Beach Middle School<ref>[http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/Commanders/Commanders%20Pages/beach.htm XVIII Airborne Corps biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809062003/http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/Commanders/Commanders%20Pages/beach.htm |date=August 9, 2007 }}</ref>
*[[Jeff Daniels]], actor of stage and screen. Founded the [[Purple Rose Theatre Company]] in Chelsea.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001099/bio|title=Jeff Daniels|website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=1 December 2016}}</ref>
*[[Bill Eversole]], racing driver
*[[Laura Kasischke]], National Book Critics Circle Award winner, poet, novelist
*[[Tony Scheffler]], professional football player for the [[Detroit Lions]]
*[[Fallon Henley]], Pro wrestler for WWE,

==Sister cities==
*[[Shimizu, Hokkaido|Shimizu]], [[Hokkaido]], Japan<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chelsea-shimizu.org/about.html|title=Sister Cities Association of Chelsea, Michigan, Inc.|access-date=1 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112733/http://www.chelsea-shimizu.org/about.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Chelsea, Michigan}}
{{wikivoyage|Chelsea (Michigan)|Chelsea, Michigan}}

*[http://city-chelsea.org/ City of Chelsea official website]

{{Washtenaw County, Michigan}}{{Adjacent communities|North-west=[[Stockbridge, Michigan]]|North-east=[[Pinckney, Michigan]]|WEST=[[Munith, Michigan]]|EAST=[[Dexter, Michigan]]|Centre=Chelsea, Michigan|South-west=[[Grass Lake, Michigan]]|South=[[Manchester, Michigan]]|South-east=[[Saline, Michigan]]}}{{Authority control}}

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