Kent county (Michigan)
| Michigan Kent county | |
|---|---|
 Position in Michigan of the county | |
 Position in the United States of America of the state | |
| The establishment | 1831 |
| County seat | Grand Rapids |
| The greatest city | Grand Rapids |
| Area - Total area - The land - Water | 2,259 km2 (872.18 mi2) 2,217 km2 (856.17 mi2) 41 km2 (16.01 mi2), 1.84% |
| Population by estimate - (2010) - Density | 602,622 people 274.7 /km2 (711 /mi2) |
| Standard time | The eastern part: UTC-5/-4 |
| Website | |
Kent county (British: Kent County) is a county located in the western part of the United States of America Michigan ロウアー peninsula. It was 602,622 people, and the population in the 2010 national census rose 4.9% from 574,335 people of 2000 [1]. County seat is a city of the population maximum in the county that is Grand Rapids city (a population of 188,040 people [2]). The county name was named Ohio for jurist James Kent of New York that acted as the representative of the Michigan associate state at the time of the Toledo war that disputed it.
The Kent county belongs to the Grand Rapids Wyoming metropolis. There is steel case company in the county and is economy of west Michigan and the industrial center. In addition, there is the Frederick May L garden which is a cultural symbol of the middle western district. It was the republican strong ground and was in the conservative soil traditionally, but supported Presidential Candidate Democratic Party in the United States of America presidential election in 2008. This became first in 44 years since 1964. Even as to religion is conservative, and there are a significant number of evangelism Christians. There is Gerald R Ford International Airport in a county.
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History
The grand river which is the Michigan's greatest river flows through the county. With the grave which is the remains of the Hopewell culture Indian who has ever lived in this area in the west coast [3]. The basin of the grand river was an important center of the fur trade early in the 19th century. After U.S. and British war, Rix Robinson and Louis Cane Poe became a local immediate early trade supplier [4].
The Kent county separated from the Kalamazoo county in 1831 and was established [5]. In 1838, Grand Rapids was made a corporation as the first village in the county. I was stimulated by some lumber mill construction by the end of 19th century, and this area became agriculture, a lumbering, the important center of the cabinetmaking.
Geography
If depend on the United States of America Bureau of the Census, the county area entire surface product is 872.18 square mile (2,258.9 km2);, of these, in the land 856.17 square mile (2,217.5 km2), the area of the sea, area of the sea rate is 1.84% at 16.01 square mile (41.5 km2) [6].
Summit level in the counties is Fisk knob park in the Solon township [7], and altitude is 1,048 feet (319m); [8].
River
After a grand river flowing through the west from the east county line, and having passed through the Ottawa county, it flows into Lake Michigan in グランドヘイブン. There are three following branches in the county.
- I enter the county at the east and, flat River, join the grand river in Lowell from the north
- I enter the county at the south and, sone Apple River, join the grand river in Ada
- I enter the county at the north and, log River, join the grand river in Belmont
Trail
There are the hiking such as follows and the trail for the bicycle in the county.
- I grow for North Country trail, the north and south full length of the county. I pass cedar springs, グラッテン, Lowell. Lowell is a midway point, and here is the headquarters of association of North Country trail of the whole country
- I begin with sone apple trail, Kent Wood and go along ダットン and Caledonia southwest
- I begin in a white pine trail, the com stock park and go along Belmont, Rockford, cedar springs, the sand lake northeast
- I go to the north and south from Kent trails, Grand Rapids City John Ball Park to the 84th Street of Byron, and there is the branch line of the north and south direction from the 76th Street to the Douglas Walker park of the 84th Street with East-West directions along the 76th Street
- It is unfinished as of Frederick May L trail, November, 2008 and extends to the East-West directions along state way Route 6 and connects it to Kent trails and a sone apple trail if completed
- I go along Canon township trail, Canon tp. in eastern county. After having advanced along state way Route 44, I advance to the south sunfish lake road and I throw it on the east and am over in Townsend park nearly Canon Bergh through Canon Bergh graveyard
Traffic
Airport
The air passenger regular service to Grand Rapids has Gerald R Ford International Airport (GRR). It was named Kent county International Airport formerly. The nation's first regular service was navigated between Grand Rapids City and Detroit cities on July 31, 1926.
Bus
"The, rapid", as for the public transport, the inter-city traffic joint venture of the という name travels. "The downtown area shuttle operates a bus flight, too". These buses service performs the transportation for the much getting on and off place around the city from the parking lot in Grand Rapids City.
Railroad
Amtrak operates a passenger flight by Pele Marquette Line to Chicago from the Grand Rapids City passenger station. The cargo flight has Canadian National railroad, the Grand Rapids eastern railroad which CSX transportation travels, and is a local short line.
Main highly specified road
Expressway Route 96 between states
Expressway Route 196 between states
There are not expressway Route 296, the mark between states and joins at some National highway No. 131 in Grand Rapids City
American National highway No. 131
Michigan way Route 6
Michigan way Route 11
Michigan way Route 21
Michigan way Route 37
Michigan way Route 44
Michigan way Route 46
Michigan way Route 50
Michigan way Route 57
County designated road
- County way Route 45
- County way Route 72
Adjacent county
- The ニウェーゴ county - north
- The mon culm county - northeast
- Trout key Gon county - northwest
- The Ionia county - east
- The Ottawa county - west
- That cancer county - southwest
- Barry county - southeast
Main company
The companies establishing the head office in the Kent county are as follows.
- Amway, Ada
- American sheeting, Grand Rapids
- Bissell home care, Walker
- Gordon foodservice, Wyoming
- Mair, Walker
- Old orchard, スパータ
- Spar tongue stores, Byron township
- Steel case, Grand Rapids
- Universal Forest products, north view
- Wolverene world wide, Rockford
- X-light, Kent Wood
- Plastic combs packaging solutions, Byron township
- Zondervan, cascade township
Population dynamics
| Year | Population | %± | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1840 | 2,587 | | |
| 1850 | 12,016 | 364.5% | |
| 1860 | 30,716 | 155.6% | |
| 1870 | 50,403 | 64.1% | |
| 1880 | 73,253 | 45.3% | |
| 1890 | 109,922 | 50.1% | |
| 1900 | 129,714 | 18.0% | |
| 1910 | 159,145 | 22.7% | |
| 1920 | 183,041 | 15.0% | |
| 1930 | 240,511 | 31.4% | |
| 1940 | 246,338 | 2.4% | |
| 1950 | 288,292 | 17.0% | |
| 1960 | 363,187 | 26.0% | |
| 1970 | 411,044 | 13.2% | |
| 1980 | 444,506 | 8.1% | |
| 1990 | 500,631 | 12.6% | |
| 2000 | 574,335 | 14.7% | |
| 2010 | 602,622 | 4.9% | |
| 2011 (by estimate) | 608,453 | 1.0% | |
| 2011 estimate | |||
It is the population statistics data by the national census of 2000 as follows.
| Basic data
Population composition according to the race
Constitution by ancestors
Constitution by the language | Age-specific population composition
A household and family (the number of the households)
IncomeAn income and the family budget
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County government
The county government performs the participation in measure of the state in the administration of the county prison, the maintenance of the country path, administration, the quitclaim of the district court and the maintenance of the important record including the mortgage setting record, management of the public sanitation regulation, the item of the social service including the welfare. 郡政委員会 manages the budget, but it is authority with the limitation to make law and the regulations. In Michigan, the police and firefighting, construction and division percent, a tax evaluation, most of the local governments function including the street maintenance are an individual city and responsibility of the townships.
Political
Kent county is the republican strong ground from old days, and it is usual that even a nationwide person supports Republican Party candidate in the hometown.
Barack Obama of the Democratic Party got 149,909 votes, 49.34% in the United States of America presidential election in 2008, and John McCain of the Republican ticket on the other hand won Kent county by 148,336 votes, 48.83% and a close battle [9]. Obama won Michigan with a vote rate difference of more than 10%.
In 2,004 years, George W. Bush of the President of Republican Party got 171,201 votes, 58.85%, and John Kelly of the Democratic Party was 116,909 votes, 40.19% [10].
For 2,000 years, as for Bush, 148,602 votes, 59.37%, Albert Gore of the Democratic Party were 95,442 votes, 38.13% [11].
Township
The Kent county is divided by 21 following tp.
- Ada
- Al sesame
- Alpine Electronics
- Vaughn
- Byron
- Caledonia *
- Canon
- Cascade *
- Coat land
- Gaines's *
- Grand Rapids *
- Gratin
- Lowell *
- Nelson
- Oak field
- Plane field *
- Solon
- スパータ
- Spenser
- Tyrone
- Bar Gen's
* Chartered township
City and town
| City
| Village
| Town of non-admission
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Footnote
- ^ Quickfacts.census.gov - Kent County - accessed 2011-12-06.
- ^ Quickfacts.census.gov - Grand Rapids, Michigan - accessed 2011-12-06.
- ^ Beld, Gordon G. (2012). Grand Times in Grand Rapids: Pieces of Furniture City History, pp. 17-19. The History Press.
- ^ Fuller, George Newman (1916). Economic and Social Beginnings of Michigan, p. 423. Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co.
- ^ Purkey, Thomas H. (1986). Soil Survey of Kent County, Michigan, p. 2. United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service.
- ^ "Census 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Counties." United States Census. November 5, 2011 reading. [Broken link]
- ^ Fisk Knob[ broken link], Grand Valley State University - Kent County Parks
- ^ Highest Point in Kent County, Google Earth/Maps]
- ^ http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2008&fips=26081&off=0&elect=0&f=0
- ^ http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2004&fips=26081&off=0&elect=0&f=0
- ^ http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2000&off=0&elect=0&fips=26081&f=0
Outside link
- Official Website of Kent County, Michigan - official site
- Official GIS Map of Kent County, Michigan
- The Rapid
Coordinate: 43°02'N 85°33'W / 43.03 degrees N 85.55 degrees W
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