Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Blue Lake Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Blue Lake Township

Half of Blue Lake Township’s homes were built after 1970

Most of Blue Lake Township was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1970. Below: maps from 1956 on.

0on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory

What stands out about Blue Lake Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Blue Lake Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Blue Lake Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Blue Lake Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Blue Lake Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Blue Lake Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Blue Lake Township is a civil township of Kalkaska County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 393.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 387 in 2010, 393 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Blue Lake Township on the map, 1956 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Blue Lake Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Blue Lake Township on the 1956 USGS mapBlue Lake Township on the 1985 USGS map1956Alba sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Blue Lake Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Blue Lake Township

Nobody well known was born in Blue Lake Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

See all →
Jim HarrisonAmerican poet, novelist, and essayist · b. 1937
Luke JensenUS tennis player · b. 1966
N
Norman Z. McLeodAmerican film director · b. 1895
Roger MasonAmerican baseball player · b. 1958
E
Emil FriskProfessional baseball player · b. 1874
S
Steven DammanUnsolved 1955 disappearance of American boy · b. 1950
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Coldsprings TownshipIts storyC−Bear Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMancelona TownshipIts storyCFrederic TownshipIts storyC−

Questions about Blue Lake Township’s history

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.