Delta Center, an unincorporated community within the township.The incorporated area of Delta Township includes:
By 1887, the area was mainly supported by farming and grist and sawmills. They also appropriated “$100 for bridges and roads” and decreed that bulls and boar hogs must be fenced in. At the first township meeting, citizens chose the name Delta and elected Ingersolls to nine of the nineteen township offices. By 1880, Grand River City contained a sawmill, a gristmill, several mechanic shops, and three churches.ĭelta Township was incorporated as a charter township in 1962 by a special election. At one time this community was considered and in the running for the site of the Michigan seat of government but lost out to the City of Lansing in 1847. In 1842, Whitney Jones opened a general store but moved his operations to Lansing in 1846. It was given the aspiring name of “Grand River City” and seemed destined for success. On June 11, 1841, a plat was laid out for Delta Mills extending from the Grand River northward into what is now Watertown Township. His settlement, soon named “Delta Mills”, was the site of the first sawmill in 1836. The first recorded indication of residency in Delta Township was in 1835 when Erastus Ingersoll settled on 800 acres of land that he had purchased from the government. Until that time, Delta along with Windsor and Benton Townships were a part of Oneida Township. The Michigan Legislature organized the township on February 16, 1842. The first settlers, Erastus and Sally Ingersoll and their twelve children, did not arrive until 1835. Musgrove Evans platted this area in 1827. Policymaking and legislative authority are vested in the elected board consisting of a supervisor, treasurer, clerk, and four trustees. A seven-member board using a board-manager form of government governs the Township. The Charter Township of Delta has been a municipal corporation since 1962. Delta Township is currently the fourth largest municipality in the Lansing/East Lansing metropolitan statistical area. The Township covers an area of approximately 36 square miles and has a population of 33,000+. Delta Township is located on the west side of the Capital Area Region, bordered on the east by the City of Lansing.
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