Brevort Township is a

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in the U.S. state of

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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 502, down from 594 in 2010. The township was named after Henry Brevort (or Brevoort), a surveyor assigned to subdivide the area in 1845. Most of the township land is within the eastern portion of the

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. The township includes part of the

Mackinac Wilderness The Mackinac Wilderness is a unit within the Hiawatha National Forest. It is located in Mackinac County, Michigan. The wilderness is accessible from M-123 (Michigan highway), M-123, which borders the unit. The nearest town is Moran, Michigan. ...

Geography

The township is in central Mackinac County, bordered to the west and south by Moran Township and to the east by St. Ignace Township. It is bordered to the north by Trout Lake Township in Chippewa County. According to the

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, Brevort Township has a total area of , of which are land and (6.43%) are water. Highway M-123 passes diagonally southeast–northwest through the township, and

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and

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are just outside of the township boundaries to the south and east.

Communities

* Allenville was a station on the

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less than one mile southeast of Moran at . It was founded by J. Alley, head of the Alley Lumber Company in 1873. A post office operated from December 1873 until October 1891. Also known as "Alley Town", the community was almost destroyed by fire in 1882. * Moran is an

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on M-123 at approximately northwest of

St. Ignace St. Ignace is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Mackinac County. The city had a population of 2,452 at the 2010 census. St. Ignace Township is located just to the north of the city, but the two are administered auto ...

. Confusingly, the community is not a part of Moran Township, which is adjacent to Brevort Township on the south and west. It was initially called "Jacob City", after the president of the German Land Company of

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, which sold land to members in 1881–83. In 1883, Jacob was accused of fraud and ousted from the organization. Another member of the group, William B. Moran, loaned the group funds to buy additional land, and the settlement was renamed after him in 1883. A post office named "Jacob City" was established in February 1882 and renamed "Moran" in January 1883. The office was transferred to and renamed "Allenville" in April 1898, but a Moran post office was re-established in May 1910. The name of Moran Township and other nearby places named Moran such as East Moran Bay in

, West Moran Bay on Lake Michigan, and the Moran River all have a different origin, and instead derive from the French ''Morin''.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Townships in Mackinac County, Michigan Townships in Michigan Populated places established in 1881 1881 establishments in Michigan