Birmingham, Michigan Birmingham, Michigan City of Birmingham Location of Birmingham, Michigan Location of Birmingham, Michigan Website City of Birmingham, Michigan Birmingham is a town/city in Oakland County of the U.S.
State of Michigan and a suburb of Detroit.
The region comprising what is now the town/city of Birmingham was part of territory ceded by Native American tribes to the United States government by the 1807 Treaty of Detroit. However, settlement was delayed first by the War of 1812 and later by an unfavorable report by the Surveyor-General of the United States, Edward Tiffin, regarding the placement of Military Bounty Lands for veterans of the War of 1812. Tiffin's report claimed that "There would not be an acre out of a hundred, if there would be one out of a thousand that would, in any case, admit cultivation." Hunter and his brother Daniel left Auburn, New York, by sleigh and traveled to Michigan by way of Upper Canada.
Made an entry for the northeast quarter of section 36, now in the southeast section of current-day Birmingham.
While Hunter did not continue for very long, Hamilton and Willets continued a rivalry for many years, competing with each other for company from travelers on Woodward Avenue between Detroit and Pontiac.
Merrill titled his plat "Birmingham" after Birmingham, England, in the hope that the new settlement would similarly turn into a great industrialized center. Elijah Willets recorded a plat on his property on December 20, 1837.
Birmingham established its own postal service on April 5, 1838.
The settlement incorporated as a village in 1864, comprising the northern half of section 36 and the southern half of section 25 with a total territory area of one square mile.
Birmingham re-incorporated as a town/city in 1933.
The names of the city's framers are seen throughout Birmingham in places such as Pierce Elementary School, Hunter House Hamburgers (which was positioned on the road formerly known as Hunter Boulevard, which bypassed downtown to the east and was retitled Woodward, with the initial Woodward Avenue section retitled Old Woodward), the Hamilton Hotel, the Willets Building and Merrill Street.
Hall & Hunter Realtors titled themselves in tribute to the builder and occupier of Birmingham's first home.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.80 square miles (12.43 km2), of which 4.79 square miles (12.41 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 20,103 citizens , 9,039 homeholds, and 5,307 families residing in the city.
There were 9,979 housing units at an average density of 2,083.3 per square mile (804.4/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 92.3% White, 3.0% African American, 0.1% Native American, 2.5% Asian, 0.4% from other competitions, and 1.6% from two or more competitions.
There were 9,039 homeholds of which 29.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.4% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.3% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 41.1 years.
24.6% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 3.9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.7% were from 25 to 44; 30.1% were from 45 to 64; and 13.7% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 19,291 citizens , 9,131 homeholds, and 5,076 families residing in the city.
There were 9,700 housing units at an average density of 2,030.6 per square mile (783.5/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.13% White, 0.91% African American, 0.15% Native American, 1.50% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.19% from other competitions, and 1.09% from two or more competitions.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 3.9% from 18 to 24, 34.9% from 25 to 44, 26.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $80,861, and the median income for a family was $110,627.
About 1.6% of families and 2.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 2.5% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.
At a price of 2 cents, The Eccentric provided a "live home paper, replete with all the news of the day" with considerable emphasis on the "local items of importance occurring in Birmingham and immediate vicinity".
Today, the Birmingham Eccentric journal continues its part as keeper of the community's small-town heritage. In 1923, a group of friends formed The Village Players of Birmingham, a private theater club.
Many new churches have started at this location, including the Bloomfield Hills Christian Church was pioneered amid the late 1970s by the Ninowskis.
In 2008, the Birmingham Little League won the 9- to 10-year-old Little League state championship.
The Birmingham City School District administers a several nationally accredited schools including Seaholm High School and Groves High School.
The Holy Name School is a co-educational parochial school established by the Roman Catholic Holy Name Church.
Pierce Elementary School in Birmingham provides classes for elementary school students of the French School of Detroit. The Japanese School of Detroit (JSD), a supplementary school for Japanese people, first began holding classes in Birmingham in 1987 when its operation at Seaholm High started.
It began holding classes at Covington School in 1989, and it also had classes at West Maple Elementary. At one point its school offices were in Birmingham. In 2010 the school announced it was moving its operations to Novi. The Baldwin Public Library serves the town/city of Birmingham and close-by communities of Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms and Bloomfield Hills.
The library is titled after Martha Baldwin, a civic prestige and lifelong resident of Birmingham who was instrumental in establishing the first library.
Birmingham was a stagecoach stop in the 19th century between Detroit and Pontiac.
On June 18, 1896, the Oakland Railway, the electric interurban, came to Birmingham and provided service to Detroit in 40 minutes; the service ended in 1931.
Amtrak provides passenger rail service on the Pontiac-Detroit-Chicago Wolverine with a stop in Birmingham three times per day in each direction (see also Birmingham, Michigan Amtrak station).
In 1839, the barns tracks were extended to Birmingham with two steam trains a day running to Detroit.
By 1931, the Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW) moved the tracks to their present locale and provided commuter rail service from Pontiac to downtown Detroit with a stop in Birmingham.
Tim Allen, actor (raised in Birmingham) Patricia Ellis, 1930s film actress, born in Birmingham "City of Birmingham, Michigan".
City of Birmingham, Michigan.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Birmingham, Michigan "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Birmingham city, Michigan".
Description of the military territory in Michigan, report by surveyor-general Edward Tiffin, November 30, 1815, in Michigan As a Province, Territory and State, the Twenty-Sixth Member of the Federal Union Vol.
Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press.
Walter ROmig, Michigan Place Names, p.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
First United Methodist Church History Archived October 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
City of Birmingham, MI: The Birmingham Eccentric Archived October 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
French School of Detroit.
Japanese School of Detroit.
() Japanese School of Detroit.
Japanese School of Detroit.
" Japanese School of Detroit 2436 W.Lincoln, Suite E101 Birmingham, MI 48009, U.S.A." "Japanese School of Detroit to relocate to Novi." (Archive, PDF version, Archive) Novi Community School District.
"Born in Birmingham, Mich., to Chinese immigrant parents," City of Birmingham official website Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, Troy Troy Birmingham Municipalities and communities of Oakland County, Michigan, United States
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