Editing Hendricks Township, Michigan

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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name      = Hendricks Township, Michigan
| settlement_type    = [[Civil township]]
| nickname           = 
| motto              = 

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| image_skyline      = Hendricks Township, MI offices.jpg
| imagesize          = 275
| image_caption      = Hendricks Township Office
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| pushpin_label      = Hendricks Township
| pushpin_map_caption = Location within the state of Michigan##Location within the United States
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| image_map          = Hendricks Township, MI location.png
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| map_caption        = Location within [[Mackinac County, Michigan|Mackinac County]]
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| 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]]

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| government_footnotes = 
| government_type    = 
| leader_title       = Supervisor
| leader_name        = Howard Hood
| leader_title1      = [[Municipal clerk|Clerk]]
| leader_name1       = Laurie Collier
| established_title  = 
| established_date   = 

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| 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 14, 2023}}</ref>
| area_total_km2     = 210.05
| area_land_km2      = 204.53
| area_water_km2     = 5.52
| area_total_sq_mi   = 81.10
| area_land_sq_mi    = 78.97
| area_water_sq_mi   = 2.13

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| 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=0600000US2609737660&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1| title=P1. Race – Hendricks township, Michigan: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| access-date=August 14, 2023}}</ref>
| population_total   = 117
| population_density_km2 = 
| population_density_sq_mi = 1.94

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| timezone           = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|Eastern (EST)]]
| utc_offset         = -5
| timezone_DST       = EDT
| utc_offset_DST     = -4
| elevation_footnotes = 
| elevation_m        = 262
| elevation_ft       = 860
| coordinates        = {{coord|46|08|26|N|85|10|49|W|region:US-MI|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP Code]]s
| postal_code        = 49762 ([[Naubinway, Michigan|Naubinway]])<br>49793 ([[Trout Lake Township, Michigan|Trout Lake]])
| area_code          = [[Area code 906|906]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 26-37660<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        = 1626464<ref>{{gnis|1626464}}</ref>
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}}
[[File:Hendricks Township Michigan Fire Station Epoufette.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Former Hendricks Township Fire Station]]
'''Hendricks Township''' is a [[civil township]] of [[Mackinac County, Michigan|Mackinac County]] in the U.S. state of [[Michigan]]. The population was 117 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]],<ref name="Census 2020"/> down from 153 in [[2010 United States census|2010]].<ref name=CENS>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-24.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019111423/http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/cph-2-24.pdf |archive-date=2012-10-19 |url-status=live|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 = July 9, 2021|page=31 Michigan}}</ref>

== Geography ==
The township is west of the center of Mackinac County, on the northern shore of [[Lake Michigan]]. It is bordered to the east by [[Moran Township, Michigan|Moran Township]] and to the west by [[Hudson Township, Mackinac County, Michigan|Hudson Township]], both in Mackinac County; and by [[Hulbert Township, Michigan|Hulbert Township]] to the north and [[Trout Lake Township, Michigan|Trout Lake Township]] to the northeast, both in [[Chippewa County, Michigan|Chippewa County]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], Hendricks Township has a total area of {{convert|81.10|sqmi|km2|2}}, of which {{convert|78.97|sqmi|km2|2}} are land and {{convert|2.13|sqmi|km2|2}} (2.62%) are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2022"/>

=== Communities ===
* '''Caffey''', along with the nearby '''Caffey Corner''', was a lumber settlement at {{Coord|46|10|08|N|85|11|07|W|}}. It is on [[H-40 (Michigan county highway)|H-40]]. West of Caffey, H-40 is also known as the "Hiawatha Trail". At Caffey Corner, the Hiawatha Trail branches off to the south to end at [[U.S. Route 2 in Michigan|US 2]] east of Epoufette.  H-40 continues east from Caffey approximately {{convert|7|mi|0}} to [[Trout Lake, Michigan|Trout Lake]] and from there on to [[Rudyard, Michigan|Rudyard]] just west of [[Interstate 75 in Michigan|I-75]].<ref>{{gnis|1617471|Caffey, Michigan}}</ref><ref>{{gnis|1617472|Caffey Corner, Michigan}}</ref> Its station on the [[Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway]] was originally called "Lewis", but because at the time there was another post office named Lewis in Michigan, it was given a post office named "Caffey", after the Pennsylvania-born [[American Civil War|Civil War]] veteran William N. Caffey, who became the first postmaster in November 1899. The office closed in September 1909 and re-opened with Caffey as postmaster in June 1913. The post office closed permanently in December 1916.<ref name="Romig">{{cite book | last = Romig | first = Walter | year = 1986 | title = Michigan Place Names | orig-year= 1973 | publisher = Wayne State University Press | location = Detroit, Michigan | isbn = 0-8143-1838-X}}</ref><ref>{{gnis|2358652|Caffey Post Office (historical)}}</ref>
* '''[[Epoufette, Michigan|Epoufette]]''' is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in the township on [[U.S. Route 2 in Michigan|US 2]] on [[Lake Michigan]] at {{Coord|46|03|20|N|85|10|06|W|}}.<ref>{{gnis|625620|Epoufette, Michigan}}</ref> In 1848, a government surveyor, John R. McLeod, found an [[Ojibwe]] village here. Amable Goudreau began a commercial fishing business here in 1859, but it did not get a post office until lumbering operations began. McLeod became the first postmaster in December 1879. The name, [[French language|French]] for "place of rest", was given by early French settlers because it was believed that Father [[Jacques Marquette]] used the harbor as the first step on his trip down Lake Michigan from [[St. Ignace, Michigan|St. Ignace]].<ref name="Romig" /> A historical marker commemorating the fishing village was erected in 1986.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20010221190727/http://www.michmarkers.com/Pages/L1255.htm Epoufette]}}, Michigan Historical Markers</ref> A summer post office operated here from 1959 to 1965 and 1966–1972.<ref>{{gnis|1926643|Epoufette Post Office (historical)}}</ref>
*'''Fiborn Quarry''' was a settlement around a limestone quarry.<ref>Walter Romig, ''Michigan Place Names'', p. 196</ref>

==References==
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{{Mackinac County, Michigan}}

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[[Category:Townships in Mackinac County, Michigan]]
[[Category:Townships in Michigan]]
[[Category:Michigan populated places on Lake Michigan]]