West Bloomfield Township, Michigan Charter Township of West Bloomfield Location of West Bloomfield Township inside Oakland County, Michigan Location of West Bloomfield Township inside Oakland County, Michigan Charter Township of West Bloomfield is positioned in Michigan Charter Township of West Bloomfield - Charter Township of West Bloomfield West Bloomfield Township is a charter township in Oakland County in the U.S.
On April 22, 1833, Bloomfield Township was divided in two, and the portion was called West Bloomfield.
In fact, the plentiful apple trees positioned on an island in one lake led to the naming of the body of water as Orchard Lake, and the aforementioned island as Apple Island.
West Bloomfield is sometimes referred to by its inhabitants as the "lake township of Oakland County", being heavily dotted with small and medium-sized lakes.
Cass Lake, the biggest lake in the county, is in part of West Bloomfield, and Pine Lake, which has a private nation club on its shore, is only a several miles away from Cass and lies completely inside West Bloomfield.
In addition, directly west of Pine Lake is Orchard Lake, which also has a private nation club on its shore.
Orchard Lake Road runs north-south through the middle of the township and is the chief artery of West Bloomfield's economy along with West Maple Road (15 Mile Rd.), bordered on each side by long strip malls and shopping complexes.
West Bloomfield is positioned in south-central Oakland County about 10 miles (20 km) to the northwest from the Detroit town/city limits and has borders with Bloomfield Township to its east, Farmington Hills to its south, Commerce Township to its west, and four communities to its north: Waterford Township, Orchard Lake Village, Keego Harbor, and Sylvan Lake.
The communities of West Bloomfield, Orchard Lake Village, Keego Harbor, and Sylvan Lake make up what is known as Greater West Bloomfield.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the township has a total region of 31.2 square miles (81 km2), of which 27.3 square miles (71 km2) is territory and 3.9 square miles (10 km2), or 12.49%, is water.
West Bloomfield High School The school districts that serve the town include the West Bloomfield School District, Waterford School District, Farmington Public Schools, Birmingham City School District, Pontiac School District, Walled Lake School District, and the Bloomfield Hills School District. West Bloomfield High School, the Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit and St.
Mary's Preparatory are the only three high schools positioned inside Greater West Bloomfield.
The West Bloomfield Township Public Library serves West Bloomfield.
West Bloomfield has a large Jewish population. It is home to the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit, the Frankel Jewish Academy, a Jewish improve high school, and the exhibition of the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan.
West Bloomfield also has a large Chaldean populace as of 1990.
Levin wrote that "the opposition wasn't vigorous or long-lasting". By 1990 the Jews and Chaldeans in West Bloomfield began to socialize increasingly. By 2004 the Chaldean Cultural Center, the United States's biggest Chaldean cultural center, was positioned in West Bloomfield Township. As of April 2013, West Bloomfield had the third biggest Japanese nationwide population in the state of Michigan, at 1,047. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: West Bloomfield Township, Michigan "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), West Bloomfield charter township, Oakland County, Michigan".
"West Bloomfield Described," Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society, Accessed June 23, 2007 Archive accessed September 11, 2013.
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"Students from Japan Visit West Bloomfield Library." (Archive) West Bloomfield Patch.
"WEST BLOOMFIELD JOURNAL; Jews and Ethnic Iraqis: A Neighborhood's Story." Wikimedia Commons has media related to West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.
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