Editing Greenland Township, Michigan

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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name            = Greenland Township, Michigan
| settlement_type          = [[Civil township]]
| nickname                 = 
| motto                    = <!-- Images -->
| image_skyline            = GreenlandTownshipFireDepartmentM26.jpg
| imagesize                = 275
| image_caption            = Greenland Township Fire Station
| image_flag               = 
| image_seal               = <!-- Maps -->
| pushpin_map              = Michigan#USA
| pushpin_label            = Greenland Township
| pushpin_label_position   = right<!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none -->
| pushpin_map_caption      = Location within the state of Michigan
| pushpin_mapsize          = 
| image_map                = Greenland Township, MI2.png
| mapsize                  = 250
| map_caption              = Location within [[Ontonagon County, Michigan|Ontonagon County]]
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| 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        = [[Ontonagon County, Michigan|Ontonagon]]

<!-- Government -->| government_footnotes     = 
| government_type          = 
| leader_title             = Supervisor
| leader_name              = Fred Barron
| leader_title1            = [[Municipal clerk|Clerk]]
| leader_name1             = Corrie Kaarto
| 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         = 113.19
| area_land_sq_mi          = 113.19
| area_water_sq_mi         = 0.0

<!-- Population -->| population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_footnotes     = 
| population_total         = 628
| population_density_km2   = 
| population_density_sq_mi = 7.0

<!-- General information -->| timezone                 = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|Eastern (EST)]]
| utc_offset               = -5
| timezone_DST             = EDT
| utc_offset_DST           = -4
| elevation_footnotes      = 
| elevation_m              = 280
| elevation_ft             = 919
| coordinates              = {{coord|46|46|38|N|89|3|41|W|region:US-MI|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type         = [[ZIP Code|ZIP code(s)]]
| postal_code              = 49929 (Greenland)<br>49948 ([[Mass City, Michigan|Mass City]])<br>49953 ([[Ontonagon, Michigan|Ontonagon]])<br>49965 ([[Toivola, Michigan|Toivola]])
| area_code                = [[Area code 906|906]]
| blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info               = 26-35000<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              = 1626398<ref>{{gnis|1626398}}</ref>
| website                  = 
| footnotes                = 
}}
'''Greenland Township''' is a [[civil township]] of [[Ontonagon County, Michigan|Ontonagon County]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]]. The population was 628 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Greenland+township,+Ontonagon+County,+Michigan&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1 |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref>

== History ==
Michigan and the entire old [[Northwest Territory]] were gridded into 36 square mile geographic townships. Due to the mountainous terrain and low population density, both the counties and their political subdivisional townships in Michigan's Upper Peninsula were defined in order to keep communities connected to their county seats. Greenland Township is irregularly shaped and three times the size of a geographic township, containing the source streams for a number of rivers, so it was not difficult in early days to ford streams within the township.

In the 1920s, copper mines had spur connections in Greenland Township to the [[Copper Range Railroad]] and the [[Milwaukee Road|Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad]], driving population growth of the communities of Greenland (in Section 26), Lake Mine (Section 31), Mass City (Straddling sections 5, 35 and 36), McKeever (Section 9), Peppard (Section 4), Riddle Junction ([[Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway|DSS&A]] connection in Section 18) and Simar (Section 33).<ref>[https://curtiswrightmaps.com/product/topographical-map-of-ontonagon-county-michigan/ Topographical Map of Ontonagon County, Michigan]. Circa 1927. Standard Map Company, Chicago, Illinois. Accessed 12 Nov 2023.</ref> (The 21st century Simar landing strip is just east in [[Bohemia Township, Michigan|Bohemia Township]]).

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the township has a total area of {{convert|113.19|sqmi|km2}}, all land.

=== Communities ===
*'''[[Greenland, Michigan|Greenland]]''' is an unincorporated community in the township.
*'''Maple Grove''' is an unincorporated community in the township.
*'''[[Mass City, Michigan|Mass City]]''' is an unincorporated community in the township.
*'''Wainola''' is an unincorporated community at the junction of Rousseau Road with Mud Creek Road and Post Office Road.
*'''Wasas''' is an old unincorporated community surrounding the junction of Rousseau Road and Wasas Road in the southeast of the township. The community center was the Wasas depot just south of the railroad tracks but is now considered to be at the highway intersection.

=== Climate ===
This [[climate|climatic]] region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters.  According to the [[Köppen Climate Classification]] system, Greenland has a [[humid continental climate]], abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.<ref>[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=22602&cityname=Greenland%2C+Michigan%2C+United+States+of+America&units= Climate Summary for Greenland Township, Michigan]</ref>

==References==
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{{Ontonagon County, Michigan}}

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