Brevort Township, Michigan

Civil township in Michigan, United States

46°02′46″N 84°50′35″W / 46.04611°N 84.84306°W / 46.04611; -84.84306CountryUnited StatesStateMichiganCountyMackinacEstablished1881Government

• SupervisorEd Serwach • ClerkKaye MatelskiArea

^[1]

• Total98.84 sq mi (255.99 km²) • Land92.48 sq mi (239.52 km²) • Water6.36 sq mi (16.47 km²)Elevation

686 ft (209 m)Population

(2020)^[2]

• Total502 • Density6.42/sq mi (2.48/km²)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP Codes

49760 (Moran)
49780 (Rudyard)

Area code906FIPS code26-097-10360^[3]GNIS feature ID1625975^[4]Websitewww.brevorttownship.com

Brevort Township is a civil township of Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 502,^[2] down from 594 in 2010.^[5]

The township was named after Henry Brevort (or Brevoort), a surveyor assigned to subdivide the area in 1845.^[6] Most of the township land is within the eastern portion of the Hiawatha National Forest. The township includes part of the Mackinac Wilderness.

Geography

The township is in central Mackinac County, bordered to the west and south by Moran Township and to the east by St. Ignace Township. It is bordered to the north by Trout Lake Township in Chippewa County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Brevort Township has a total area of 98.84 square miles (255.99 km²), of which 92.48 square miles (239.52 km²) are land and 6.36 square miles (16.47 km²) (6.43%) are water.^[1]

Highway M-123 passes diagonally southeast–northwest through the township, and U.S. Route 2 and Interstate 75 are just outside of the township boundaries to the south and east.

Communities

Allenville was a station on the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette Railroad less than one mile southeast of Moran at 45°59′05″N 84°49′14″W / 45.98472°N 84.82056°W / 45.98472; -84.82056.^[7] It was founded by J. Alley, head of the Alley Lumber Company in 1873. A post office operated from December 1873 until October 1891. Also known as "Alley Town", the community was almost destroyed by fire in 1882.^[6]
Moran is an unincorporated community on M-123 at 45°59′39″N 84°49′51″W / 45.99417°N 84.83083°W / 45.99417; -84.83083^[8] approximately 13 miles (21 km) northwest of St. Ignace. Confusingly, the community is not a part of Moran Township, which is adjacent to Brevort Township on the south and west. It was initially called "Jacob City", after the president of the German Land Company of Detroit, which sold land to members in 1881–83. In 1883, Jacob was accused of fraud and ousted from the organization. Another member of the group, William B. Moran, loaned the group funds to buy additional land, and the settlement was renamed after him in 1883. A post office named "Jacob City" was established in February 1882 and renamed "Moran" in January 1883. The office was transferred to and renamed "Allenville" in April 1898, but a Moran post office was re-established in May 1910. The name of Moran Township and other nearby places named Moran such as East Moran Bay in St. Ignace, West Moran Bay on Lake Michigan, and the Moran River all have a different origin, and instead derive from the French Morin.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "2022 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Michigan". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "P1. Race – Brevort township, Michigan: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Brevort Township, Michigan
^ "Michigan: 2010 Population and Housing Unit Counts 2010 Census of Population and Housing" (PDF). 2010 United States Census. United States Census Bureau. September 2012. p. 31 Michigan. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Romig, Walter (1986) [1973]. Michigan Place Names. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1838-X.
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Allenville, Michigan
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Moran, Michigan