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An 1868 pictorial map of Grand Rapids. By 1838, the settlement incorporated as a village, and encompassed approximately three-quarters of a mile (1 km) . The first formal census in 1845 recorded a population of 1,510 and an area of 4 square miles (10 km 2 ). The city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. [9]
Description. Heritage Hill is adjacent to downtown Grand Rapids and is the city's oldest residential district. Its 1,300 homes date from 1843 and represent Michigan's largest and finest concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth-century houses. Nearly every style of American architecture, from Greek Revival to Prairie is represented.
The Grand Rapids metropolitan area is a triangular shaped Metro Triplex, in West Michigan, which fans out westward from the primary hub city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the other two metro hubs of Muskegon and Holland. The metropolitan area had an estimated population of 1,059,113 in 2017. [3] The region, noted in particular for its western ...
Hospitals in Michigan. University of Michigan Health - West, formerly known as Metro Health – University of Michigan Health, is a nonprofit health system affiliated with the University of Michigan Health, with primary and specialty care services at 30 locations in West Michigan. The organization’s 208-bed main hospital is located in Metro ...
26-34020 [3] GNIS feature ID. 1626374 [4] Website. Official website. Grand Rapids Charter Township is a charter township of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 18,905 at the 2020 census. [2] The township is bordered by Grand Rapids to the west and East Grand Rapids to the southwest, but the township is administered ...
Crescent Park (Grand Rapids, Michigan) / 42.968862°N 85.666775°W / 42.968862; -85.666775. Crescent Park is a city park located in the north-east quadrant of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Although small in size, it provides a quiet patch of green space near to the heart of the growing city.
1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) Millennium Park is the largest urban park in West Michigan, located on the southwest side of Grand Rapids. Millennium Park connects four of the major cities in the area together, including Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Grandville, and Walker. When completed, the park will be twice as large as New York City's Central Park, at ...
Printed media. The Grand Rapids Press is the daily newspaper, while Advance Newspapers publishes a group of weekly papers providing more community-based news. Gemini Publications is a niche, regional publishing company that produces the weekly newspaper Grand Rapids Business Journal, the magazines Grand Rapids Magazine, Grand Rapids Family and Michigan Blue, and several other quarterly and ...