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Gregory, Michigan

unincorporated community in Michigan, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ113134431 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gregory is an unincorporated community in Livingston County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is located within Unadilla Township. As an unincorporated community, Gregory has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own but does have its own post office with the 48137 ZIP Code.

Geography

Gregory is located within central Unadilla Township in southwest Livingston County. The community is located about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of the Brighton–Howell area. It is one of the westernmost communities included in the Detroit–Warren–Dearborn Metropolitan Statistical Area (Metro Detroit). Gregory sits at an elevation of 935 feet (285 m) above sea level.

The community is centered along the northern terminus of M-106 (Main Street) at a curve along M-36. County highway D-32 (Church Street) also begins in Gregory at M-106 and runs for 8.4 miles (13.5 km) until merging into county highway D-19 near Pinckney. These are the only two county-designated highways in southeast Michigan.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gregory, Michigan” is unincorporated community in Michigan, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gregory, Michigan and unincorporated, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 157-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gregory, Michigan and unincorporated is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “unincorporated community in Michigan, United States” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113134431. Authority coordinates are 42.458, -84.084. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Gregory, Michigan primary sources, Gregory, Michigan archive and Gregory research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gregory, Michigan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.