Limestone Township, Michigan
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Limestone Township is a civil township of Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 407 at the 2000 census.
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[edit] Communities
There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. There are some historic locales and unincorporated communities:
- Diffin is a just south of the West Branch Whitefish River and US 41 at . It was at the junction between two former railroad lines.[1]
- Ladoga is a place at . [2]
- Limestone is an unincorporated community on M-67 about six miles south of Chatham.
- Kiva is an unincorporated community at .
- Traunik is an unincorporated community at the junction of county highways H-01 and H-44 on a branch of the Soo Line at . George Nickel homesteaded 160 acres of land here in about 1895. The community began to grow rapidly in about 1910 with an influx of Slovene immigrants to work in area lumber camps. The place was first known as "Buckeye Landing" and "Buckeye Spur", after the Buckeye Land & Lumber Company. Storekeeper Louis Mikulich became the first postmaster in July 1927 and renamed the town after the native Slovene village of many of the settlers, Travnik (not to be confused with the Bosnian city of Travnik).[3]
[edit] Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 194.4 km² (75.1 mi²). 193.1 km² (74.6 mi²) of it is land and 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²) of it (0.67%) is water.
[edit] Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there were 407 people, 174 households, and 124 families residing in the township. The population density was 2.1/km² (5.5/mi²). There were 333 housing units at an average density of 1.7/km² (4.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the township was 94.84% White, 1.47% African American, 1.47% Native American, 0.98% from other races, and 1.23% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.72% of the population.
There were 174 households out of which 25.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.8% were married couples living together, 5.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.2% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.77.
In the township the population was spread out with 21.4% under the age of 18, 3.7% from 18 to 24, 24.3% from 25 to 44, 34.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females there were 89.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.5 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $35,938, and the median income for a family was $37,981. Males had a median income of $36,094 versus $21,750 for females. The per capita income for the township was $15,384. About 7.8% of families and 9.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.6% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
[edit] References
- ^ Entry for Diffin at GNIS
- ^ GNIS entry for Lagoda
- ^ Romig, Walter [1973] (1986). Michigan Place Names. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1838-X.
