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History · Hume Township

Half of Hume Township’s homes were built after 1973

Most of Hume Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1973. Below: maps from 1970 on.

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What stands out about Hume Township’s past

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

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The story

How Hume Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Hume Township.

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The township is named after the first white settler in the area, Walter Hume, who arrived and built the first house in the 1850s. He also opened a hotel at the mouth of the Pinnebog River, which was probably the first such structure in this part of the county. Township government was organized in 1860, with the election being held at Hume's store and with Hume being elected the first supervisor. The land was once covered by stands of pine trees, which were long ago cleared and sent to saw mills at Port Crescent on the mouth of the Pinnebog River. The Port Huron Fire of 1871 and Thumb Fire of 1881 also destroyed much remaining timber land.

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Timeline

Hume Township, 1868 to 1970

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1868Post officeThe Port Crescent post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1902Post officeThe Port Crescent post office closes
  5. 1970On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Hume Township, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Port Crescent Sand Dune walkway2019Port Crescent Sand Dune walkwayHume Township, MI location2019Hume Township, MI location
On the map

Hume Township on the map, 1970 to 1984

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

Hume Township on the 1970 USGS mapHume Township on the 1984 USGS map1970Kinde West 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 Hume Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Hume Township

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

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Napoleon ChagnonAmerican anthropologist · b. 1938
Helen Thompson GaigeAmerican herpetologist · b. 1890
David C. ClarkAmerican politician · b. 1926
Howard NugentAmerican politician · b. 1879
Alvin J. DeGrowAmerican politician · b. 1926
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Fred L. WoodworthAmerican politician · b. 1877
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Hamlets and corners on the map
Hiawatha Trailer ParkPort Crescent
Gone or out of use
Port Crescent Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Hume Township
Port Crescent

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.

Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPort Austin Township6 historic placesBDwight TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMeade TownshipIts 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 Wikimedia Commons (2), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.