Editing Clark Township, Michigan

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{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Boukisville - Cedarville
| official_name      = Clark Township, Michigan
| settlement_type    = [[Civil township]]
| nickname           = 
| motto              = <!-- Images -->
| image_skyline      = Clark Township, Michigan.jpg
| imagesize          = 275
| image_caption      = Clark Township Community Center
| image_flag         = 
| image_seal         = <!-- Maps -->
| pushpin_map        = Michigan#USA
| pushpin_label_position = left <!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none -->
| pushpin_label      = Clark Township
| pushpin_map_caption = Location within the state of Michigan##Location within the United States
| pushpin_mapsize    = 
| image_map          = Clark Township, MI location2.png
| mapsize            = 250
| map_caption        = Location within [[Mackinac County, Michigan|Mackinac County]]
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| map_caption1       = <!-- Location -->
| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_type1  = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Michigan]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[List of counties in Michigan|County]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Mackinac County, Michigan|Mackinac]]

<!-- Government -->| government_footnotes = 
| government_type    = 
| leader_title       = Supervisor
| leader_name        = Mark Clymer
| leader_title1      = [[Municipal clerk|Clerk]]
| leader_name1       = Susan Rutledge
| established_title  = Established
| established_date   = 1905

<!-- Area -->| unit_pref          = Imperial
| area_footnotes     = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2022">{{cite web |title=2022 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Michigan |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2022_Gazetteer/2022_gaz_cousubs_26.txt |publisher=United States Census Bureau |accessdate=August 11, 2023}}</ref>
| area_total_km2     = 263.14
| area_land_km2      = 204.53
| area_water_km2     = 58.61
| area_total_sq_mi   = 101.60
| area_land_sq_mi    = 78.97
| area_water_sq_mi   = 22.63

<!-- Population -->| population_as_of   = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2020">{{Cite web| url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=&g=0600000US2609716060&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1| title=P1. Race – Clark township, Michigan: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| access-date=August 11, 2023}}</ref>
| population_total   = 1917
| population_density_km2 = 
| population_density_sq_mi = 26.0

<!-- General information -->| timezone           = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|Eastern (EST)]]
| utc_offset         = -5
| timezone_DST       = EDT
| utc_offset_DST     = -4
| elevation_footnotes = 
| elevation_m        = 205
| elevation_ft       = 673
| coordinates        = {{coord|45|59|57|N|84|20|41|W|region:US-MI|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP Code|ZIP Code(s)]]
| postal_code        = 49719 (Cedarville)<br>49745 (Hessel)
| area_code          = [[Area code 906|906]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 26-097-16060<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>
| blank1_name        = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info        = 1626088<ref>{{GNIS|1626088}}</ref>
| website            = {{URL|https://clarktwpmi.gov/|Official website}}
| footnotes          = 
}}
'''Clark Township''' is a [[civil township]] of [[Mackinac County, Michigan|Mackinac County]] in the U.S. state of [[Michigan]]. The population was 1,917 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="Census 2020"/>

==History==
Clark Township was established in February 1905 by the consolidation of Sherwood Township and Cedar Township.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bills Passed - Senate |work=Unionville Crescent |date=24 Feb 1905}}</ref> Cedar Township was established in March 1887.<ref>{{cite news |title=Michigan Legislature |work=The True Northerner |date=23 Mar 1887}}</ref>

==Geography==
Clark Township is the easternmost township in Mackinac County. It is bordered to the west and northwest by [[Marquette Township, Mackinac County, Michigan|Marquette Township]], to the northeast by [[Chippewa County, Michigan|Chippewa County]], and to the south by [[Lake Huron]]. 

According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the township has a total area of {{convert|101.60|sqmi|km2|2}}, of which {{convert|78.97|sqmi|km2|2}} are land and {{convert|22.63|sqmi|km2|2}} (22.27%) are water.<ref name=CENS>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-24.pdf|format=PDF |title=Michigan: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts 2010 Census of Population and Housing | date = September 2012|publisher = [[United States Census Bureau]]| work = [[2010 United States census]]| accessdate = January 30, 2022|page=31 Michigan}}</ref>  The southern part of the township is home to numerous bays and inlets of Lake Huron, as well the [[Les Cheneaux Islands]].

=== Communities ===
* '''Cedarville''' is an unincorporated community at the junction of [[M-129 (Michigan highway)|M-129]] and [[M-134 (Michigan highway)|M-134]]  at {{Coord|45|59|53|N|84|21|47|W|}}<ref>{{gnis|1617481|Cedarville, Michigan}}</ref> north of the Les Cheneaux Islands, about {{convert|2|mi|0}} east of Hessel, and about {{convert|35|mi}} due south of [[Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan|Sault Ste. Marie]]. It began as a lumber settlement on the Lake Huron shore in 1884. A post office was established in July 1888.{{sfn|Romig|1986|page=106}} The [[ZIP code]] of 49719 serves most of Clark Township. The Les Cheneaux Historical Association<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lchistorical.org/ |title=Welcome |access-date=2019-10-18 |archive-date=2019-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018074056/https://www.lchistorical.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> runs the Historical Museum and the Maritime Museum, both in Cedarville.
* '''Coryell Islands''' in this township had a post office from 1908 until 1958.{{sfn|Romig|1986|page=135}}
* '''Hessel''' is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] on [[M-134 (Michigan highway)|M-134]] north of [[Marquette Island]], the largest of the Les Cheneaux Islands at {{Coord|46|00|15|N|84|25|33|W|}}.<ref>{{gnis|1620179|Hessel, Michigan}}</ref> It was founded in 1885 by two Swedes and a Norwegian, John and Carl Hessel and John A. Johnson, and a post office was established in September 1888.{{sfn|Romig|1986|page=264}} The [[ZIP code]] of 49745 serves Hessel and the western part of Clark Township.<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=86000US49745&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=AdvSearch&_lang=en 49745 5-Digit ZCTA, 497 3-Digit ZCTA - Reference Map - American FactFinder]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census</ref>  Hessel is the home of the Antique Wooden Boat Show and Festival of the Arts,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lchistorical.org/boat-show-festival-of-arts.html |title=Boat Show/Festival of Arts |access-date=2019-10-18 |archive-date=2019-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018073820/https://www.lchistorical.org/boat-show-festival-of-arts.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> which is held annually at the public docks on the second weekend of August. Les Cheneaux Culinary School is also there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lcculinary.org/|title=The Les Cheneaux Culinary School|website=The Les Cheneaux Culinary School}}</ref>
* '''Patrick Landing''' is a named place in the township approximately one mile southwest of Cedarville on the Les Cheneaux Channel at {{Coord|45|59|05|N|84|22|38|W|}}.<ref>{{gnis|634458|Patrick Landing, Michigan}}</ref>
* '''Port Dolomite''' is a commercial port in the eastern end of the township at {{Coord|45|59|05|N|84|16|30|W|}}.<ref>{{gnis|1621295|Port Dolomite}}</ref> In 2004, it was the 93rd [[List of ports in the United States|largest port in the United States]] ranked by tonnage.

==Education==
The entire township is served by [[Les Cheneaux Community Schools]] within the township in Cedarville.<ref>{{cite web|last=Michigan Geographic Framework|url=http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/mgdl/pdfmaps/CountySchools/SD_BYCO_esize_MACKINAC%20COUNTY.pdf|title=Isabella County School Districts|date=15 November 2013|accessdate=August 28, 2024}}</ref>

==References==
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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 |type=Paperback  |orig-year= 1973 |date=October 1, 1986 |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn = 0-8143-1838-X |location=Detroit, Michigan|pages=106, 135, 264}}

==External links==
*[https://clarktwpmi.gov/ Clark Township official website]

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[[Category:Townships in Mackinac County, Michigan]]
[[Category:Townships in Michigan]]
[[Category:Populated places on Lake Huron in the United States]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1905]]
[[Category:1905 establishments in Michigan]]