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Drayton Plains, Michigan. / 42.68417°N 83.37722°W / 42.68417; -83.37722. Drayton Plains is an unincorporated community in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is located within Waterford Township.
248. FIPS code. 26-84240 [ 3] GNIS feature ID. 1627218 [ 4] Website. Official website. Waterford Township is a charter township in the geographic center of Oakland County, Michigan, United States. In 2020, the population of Waterford Township was 70,565.
Oakland County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan.It is a principal county of the Detroit metropolitan area, containing the bulk of Detroit's northern suburbs.Its seat of government is Pontiac, [a] and its largest city is Troy. [4]
The Drayton Plains State Fish Hatchery was the second fish hatchery opened by the State of Michigan Department of Natural Resources (previously known as the Michigan Conservation Department). It was established in 1903 and originally named Drayton Plains Station. The name was officially changed to Drayton Plains State Fish Hatchery in 1934.
For the first several years after Waterford Township High School was established in 1947, [6] kindergarten through sixth grade attended Four Towns, Waterford Village, Williams Lake or Waterford Center, while the high school was based at Drayton Plains School until a permanent home, on the corner of M-59 and Crescent Lake Road, was completed in ...
Waterford Village, Michigan. / 42.70000°N 83.40556°W / 42.70000; -83.40556. Waterford Village is an historic community in Waterford Township, Michigan. First settled in 1819, the village is located in the northernmost part of the township along Dixie Highway, on the southeast shore of Van Norman Lake .
In 1865, the Drayton Plains one-room schoolhouse was built at Monroe Road and Sashabaw Road in Drayton Plains, Michigan.The schoolhouse closed in 1920. In 1965, the schoolhouse was donated to the Pioneer Museum by Leonard Coates, and moved to Pine Grove. It was restored to its late 1800s-era condition and now reflects the school in its ori
73 ft (22 m) Surface elevation. 948 ft (289 m) [1] Settlements. Waterford Township. Loon Lake is a freshwater lake located in Waterford Township, Michigan. It borders Dixie Highway on the west and is south of Walton Blvd. on the north. [2] The sand-bottom lake is 243 acres (98 ha), making it the 18th largest lake in Oakland County, Michigan and ...