Editing Germfask Township, Michigan

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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name      = Germfask Township, Michigan
| settlement_type    = [[Civil township]]
| nickname           = 
| motto              = <!-- Images -->
| image_skyline      = File:Germfask.jpg
| imagesize          = 275
| image_caption      = Community of Germfask along [[M-77 (Michigan highway)|M-77]]
| 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      = Germfask Township
| pushpin_map_caption = Location within the state of Michigan
| pushpin_mapsize    = 
| image_map          = Germfask Township, MI location2.png
| mapsize            = 250
| map_caption        = Location within [[Schoolcraft County, Michigan|Schoolcraft County]]
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| mapsize1           = 
| map_caption1       = <!-- Location -->
| subdivision_type   = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_type1  = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Michigan]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[List of counties in Michigan|County]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Schoolcraft County, Michigan|Schoolcraft]]

<!-- Government -->| government_footnotes = 
| government_type    = 
| leader_title       = Supervisor
| leader_name        = Abby Burton
| leader_title1      = [[Municipal clerk|Clerk]]
| leader_name1       = Lynn Krupla
| established_title  = 
| established_date   = <!-- Area -->
| unit_pref          = Imperial
| area_footnotes     = 
| area_magnitude     = 
| area_total_km2     = 
| area_land_km2      = 
| area_water_km2     = 
| area_total_sq_mi   = 71.63
| area_land_sq_mi    = 66.43
| area_water_sq_mi   = 5.20

<!-- Population -->| population_as_of   = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_footnotes = 
| population_total   = 469
| population_density_km2 = 
| population_density_sq_mi = auto

<!-- General information -->| timezone           = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|Eastern (EST)]]
| utc_offset         = -5
| timezone_DST       = EDT
| utc_offset_DST     = -4
| elevation_footnotes = 
| elevation_m        = 210
| elevation_ft       = 689
| coordinates        = {{coord|46|14|49|N|85|56|22|W|region:US-MI|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP Code|ZIP code(s)]]
| postal_code        = 49836 (Germfask)<br>49853 ([[McMillan, Michigan|McMillan]])
| area_code          = [[Area code 906|906]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 26-31940<ref name="GR2">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |accessdate=2008-01-31 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref>
| blank1_name        = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info        = 1626347<ref>{{gnis|1626347}}</ref>
| website            = 
| footnotes          = 
}}
'''Germfask Township''' is a [[civil township]] of [[Schoolcraft County, Michigan|Schoolcraft County]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]]. The population was 469 in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Germfask+township,+Schoolcraft+County,+Michigan&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1 |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref>

The name was derived from the surname initials of eight of the original settlers of 1881: John Grant, Matthew Edge, William Robinson, Thaddeus Mead, Dr. W. W. French, Ezekiel Ackley, Oscar (O.D.) Sheppard, and Hezekiah Knaggs.<ref>{{cite book| author=Pike, Vicki Lustila |title= Germfask, Michigan: Its Pioneers and Development | publisher=self-published |date= July 26, 1973}}</ref>  The community was a station on the [[Manistique Railway]] and was given a post office on February 26, 1890.<ref>{{cite book | author=Romig, Walter, L.H.D. | title=Michigan Place Names | location=Detroit | publisher=Wayne State University Press | year=1986 | isbn=0-8143-1838-X}}</ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the township has a total area of {{convert|71.63|sqmi|km2|2}}, of which {{convert|66.43|sqmi|km2|2}} is land and {{convert|5.20|sqmi|km2|2}} (7.26%) is water.

=== Communities ===

* '''Germfask''' is an [[unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] located in the northern part of the township where the [[Manistique River]] crosses [[M-77 (Michigan highway)|M-77]] on the eastern edge of the [[Seney National Wildlife Refuge]] at {{Coord|46|14|58|N|85|55|33|W|}}.<ref>{{gnis|626758|Germfask, Michigan}}</ref>  The Germfask 49836 [[ZIP Code]] serves most of the township.

==References==
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{{Schoolcraft County, Michigan}}

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[[Category:Townships in Schoolcraft County, Michigan]]
[[Category:Townships in Michigan]]