Stanwood, Michigan
human settlement in Mecosta County, Michigan, United States of America
Stanwood is a village in Mecosta Township, Mecosta County, State of Michigan, USA. The population was 194 at the 2020 Census.
Stanwood holds the record for the hottest recorded temperature in the state of Michigan along with Mio when it reached 112 °F (44 °C) on July 13, 1936.
Geography
Stanwood is in western Mecosta County, in southeastern Mecosta Township. It is bordered to the east by Austin Township. Big Rapids, the county seat, is 9 miles (14 km) to the north, and Morley is 6 miles (10 km) to the south.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.24 square miles (0.62 km2), all of it recorded as land. Macks Creek cuts across the southwest corner of the village, flowing northwest toward the Muskegon River.
Demographics
The area was settled by Ontario native John Bell in the 1850s. He was one of the first settlers in the area and logged in what would become Bell's Siding, which was a logging community, that was located near modern-day Morley Stanwood Middle School and High School.
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 211 people, 76 households, and 59 families residing in the village.
“Stanwood, Michigan” enters the record as human settlement in Mecosta County, Michigan, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stanwood, Michigan and human can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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