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History · Cumming Township

13% of Cumming Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1965 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
13%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Cumming Township’s past

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The story so far

Cumming Township, in brief

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

Cumming Township is a civil township of Ogemaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 717 at the 2020 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 698 to 717 (+3%).

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

Timeline

Cumming Township, 1898 to 1965

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1898Post officeThe Sage post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1916Post officeThe Sage post office closes
  5. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Cumming Township on the map in 1965

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cumming Township.

Cumming Township on the 1965 USGS map1965Rose City sheet · 1:24,000

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

People over time

Cumming Township, census by census

020040060080020002020Peak: 796

Between 698 and 796 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Cumming Township’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Another post office, Sage, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Camp Lu Lay LeaFayettes Corner
Gone or out of use
Boyer AirportairportSage Post Officepost office

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Hill TownshipIts storyCKlacking TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRose CityIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRose TownshipIts storyCChurchill TownshipIts storyC−LuptonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.