Keeler Township, Michigan
township in Van Buren County, Michigan
Keeler Township is a civil township in Van Buren County, Michigan, USA. At the 2020 census, the population was 1,968.
Keeler Township is largely agricultural, though it has a large influx of summer visitors who own cottages or stay at summer resorts in the Sister Lakes area in the township's southwest corner. The Sister Lakes area, though unincorporated, has the largest collection of retail establishments in the township. (The area extends into adjacent Silver Creek Township in Cass County.)
Township offices are in Keeler, which also has some stores.
Communities
Sister Lakes
Keeler
History
In 1964, the Sister Lakes area gained national notoriety when an area resident reported seeing a Bigfoot-like creature. ABC News filed a report after hearing about monster hunters congregating in the area following the claimed sighting. In 2023, a new town hall was built. Before that, all township government business was conducted in an open room inside the Keeler Fire Department building.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.0 square miles (91 km2), of which 34.0 square miles (88 km2) is land and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2) (2.88%) is water.
Demographics
At the 2000 census, there were 2,601 people, 870 households and 629 families residing in the township.
“Keeler Township, Michigan” enters the record as township in Van Buren County, Michigan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Keeler, Township and Michigan can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6382777. VIAF identifies the subject as 168064587. The Library of Congress control number is no2010078014. Authority coordinates are 42.106, -86.176. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1964, 2023 and 2000.
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