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Flushing Township, Michigan
Flushing Charter Township is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,640 at the 2010 census. Flushing Township was rated the 63rd safest community in America with a population over 10,000 by SafeWise, a home security and safety brand, in 2017. Communities * Brent Creek is a small community within the township at on Mt. Morris Road between Nichols Road and Seymour Road.Genesee County Map.
J. Shively. State of Michigan Department of Information Technology Technology Center for Genographic Information. September 2007.
Retiring after twenty years of U.S. diplomatic service in Spain and Portugal,

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Genesee County, Michigan
Genesee County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 406,211, making it the fifth-most populous county in Michigan. The county seat and population center is Flint (birthplace of General Motors). Genesee County is considered to be a part of the greater Mid Michigan area. The county was named after Genesee County, New York which in turn comes from the Seneca word Gen-nis'-hee-yo, meaning "Beautiful Valley". Genesee County comprises the Flint, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. A major attraction for visitors is Crossroads Village, a living history village north of Flint. Genesee County is noted for having had the fossil of an ancient whale known as '' Balaenoptera Lacepede'' unearthed in Thetford Township during quarry work and estimated at 11,000 years old. History Formative period Genesee County was created on March 28, 1835, from territory taken from Lapeer, Shiawassee and Saginaw counties. The county was attached to Oa ...
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Richard Brent (Virginia)
Richard Brent (1757December 30, 1814) was an American planter, lawyer, and politician who represented Virginia in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate, and at various times Fairfax, Prince William and Stafford counties as he served at various times in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. Early and family life Brent was born in 1757, the eldest son of lawyer and future patriot legislator William Brent (1732-1782), at his father's plantation estate, 'Richland' on the Potomac River in Stafford County in the Colony of Virginia. Nearly a century earlier George Brent had emigrated across the Atlantic Ocean to the Virginia Colony to avoid England's Civil Wars and persecution as a Catholic and established 'Woodstock' plantation; others from that prominent Catholic family would include Margaret Brent, and Eleanor Carroll, sister of the future Archbishop John Carroll, who as a priest in Maryland crossed the Potomac River to serve the Brents and other Catholics in Northern Vir ...
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Rome, New York
Rome is a city in Oneida County, New York, United States, located in the central part of the state. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Rome is one of two principal cities in the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies in the "Leatherstocking Country" made famous by James Fenimore Cooper's ''Leatherstocking Tales,'' set in frontier days before the American Revolutionary War. Rome is in New York's 22nd congressional district. The city developed at an ancient portage site of Native Americans, including the historic Iroquois nations. This portage continued to be strategically important to Europeans, who also used the main 18th and 19th-century waterways, based on the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, that connected New York City and the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes. The original European settlements developed around fortifications erected in the 1750s to defend the waterway, in particular the British Fort Stanwix (1763) built in ...
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Griffiss Air Force Base
Griffiss Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force installation in the northeastern United States, located in Central New York state at Rome, about northwest of Utica. Missions included fighter interceptors, electronic research, installation, and support activities, aerial refueling, and bombers. Opened in 1942, the base closed pursuant to BRAC action in 1995 and its airfield is now Griffiss International Airport, owned by Oneida County. In November, 1984 the site was added to the National Priorities List because hazardous chemicals were found in soil and ground water. Solvents, lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) had been disposed in landfills and dry wells. Closed in September, 1995 by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission decision, it was realigned for civilian and non-combat purposes in 1995, and is now home to the Griffiss Business and Technology Park. Post-closure, two USAF activities remained: the Rome Research Site of the Air Force Res ...
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Freshet
The term ''freshet'' is most commonly used to describe a spring thaw resulting from snow and ice melt in rivers located in upper North America. A spring freshet can sometimes last several weeks on large river systems, resulting in significant inundation of flood plains as the snowpack melts in the river's watershed. Freshets can occur with differing strength and duration depending upon the depth of the snowpack and the local average rates of warming temperatures. Deeper snowpacks which melt quickly can result in more severe flooding. Late spring melts allow for faster flooding; this is because the relatively longer days and higher solar angle allow for average melting temperatures to be reached quickly, causing snow to melt rapidly. Snowpacks at higher altitudes and in mountainous areas remain cold and tend to melt over a longer period of time and thus do not contribute to major flooding. Serious flooding from southern freshets are more often related to rain storms of large trop ...
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Dover Township (other)
Dover Township may refer to: Canada * Dover Township, Ontario United States Arkansas * Dover Township, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, in Hot Spring County, Arkansas * Dover Township, Pope County, Arkansas Iowa * Dover Township, Fayette County, Iowa Kansas * Dover Township, Shawnee County, Kansas Michigan * Dover Township, Lake County, Michigan * Dover Township, Lenawee County, Michigan * Dover Township, Otsego County, Michigan Minnesota * Dover Township, Olmsted County, Minnesota Missouri * Dover Township, Lafayette County, Missouri New Jersey * Dover Township, New Jersey, now Toms River Township Ohio * Dover Township, Athens County, Ohio * Dover Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, defunct * Dover Township, Fulton County, Ohio * Dover Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio * Dover Township, Union County, Ohio Dover Township is one of the fourteen townships of Union County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,326 people in the township. Geography L ...
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Montrose Township, Michigan
The Charter Township of Montrose is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 6,224 at the 2010 census, a slight decrease from 6,336 at the 2000 census. The City of Montrose is surrounded by the township, but is politically and administratively autonomous. Montrose Charter Township is located in the northwest corner of Genesee County, bisected nearly down the middle by the Flint River. It is a six-mile square Township with the City of Montrose occupying approximately one square mile in the middle of the Township. M-57 (Vienna Rd) splits the Township in half and is a major connector to I-75, which is located 2.5 miles east of the Township limits. History In 1847, the township was formed from neighboring Vienna Township and was known as Pewonigowink Township. This name was derived from the Pewonigowink Indian Reservation, of the Saginaw Chippewa, that extended into the northwest part of the Township. On January 15, 1848, the name ...
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Vienna Township, Genesee County, Michigan
Vienna Charter Township is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 13,255 at the 2010 census, slightly up from 13,108 at the 2000 census. Communities *Farrandville is a small unincorporated community within the township at the junction of Saginaw Road ( M-54) with Farrand and Tuscola Roads at just northeast of Clio.Genesee County Map.
J. Shively. State of Michigan Department of Information Technology Technology Center for Genographic Information. September 2007.
It was named for Ira T. Farrand. *Pine Run is a small unincorporated community within the township at the junction of Saginaw ( M-54) and Vienna Roads ( < ...
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Thetford Township, Michigan
Thetford Township, is a civil township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 7,049 at the 2010 census, a large decrease from 8,277 at the 2000 census. Communities * Thetford Center is an unincorporated community in the township at Center and Vienna Roads.Genesee County Map.
J. Shively. State of Michigan Department of Information Technology Technology Center for Genographic Information. September 2007.
*Whitesburg, or ''Whitesburgh'', is an unincorporated community in the township on Vassar Road, north of Scott Road and south of Dodge Road. It formerly had a post office and a railroad station.


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On January 15, 1836, Pine Run Post Office was opened and renamed to Thetford on December 26, 1844.
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Genesee Township, Michigan
The Charter Township of Genesee, or Genesee Township, is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. In the Public Land Survey System, the township is survey area township 8 north, range 7 east. The population was 21,581 at the 2010 census, down from 24,125 at the 2000 census. Communities *Beecher is an unincorporated community in Mount Morris Township lying between the cities of Mount Morris and Flint. There is also a census-designated place with the same name defined for statistical purposes that covers the approximate area of the community. A portion of the CDP also lies within Genesee Township. *Cold Water was an unincorporated community founded in 1833 by teetotalers. It was the location of the township's first school, formed in 1835. *Genesee (formerly Geneseeville) is an unincorporated community named after Genesee County, New York as was the township and county with many settlers coming from there within the township at Genesee and Stanley Rd ...
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Mount Morris Township, Michigan
Mount Morris Charter Township is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 21,501 as of the 2010 census. The city of Mount Morris borders on the east, but the two are administered autonomously. Communities * The City of Mount Morris is adjacent to the township, but is governed independently of the township. * Beecher is an urbanized area of the township lying between the cities of Mount Morris and Flint. There is also a census-designated place with the same name defined for statistical purposes that covers the approximate area of the community. A portion of the CDP also lies within Genesee Township. * Much of the southeast portion of the township is considered to be a part of the Flint urban area. History The Township's survey area was in Grand Blanc Township from 1833 to 1836 when its area was included in Flushing and Genesee townships. The first settler was Benjamin Pearson of Avon, New York, who came in May 1833 to sections 25 ...
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Clayton Township, Genesee County, Michigan
Clayton Charter Township, or more officially Charter Township of Clayton, is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 7,581 at the 2010 census. Communities *The Village of Lennon is partially within the township on the western border. History In the Northeast area of the township on November 2, 1855, the Valeria post office opened with Andrew N. Felt as postmaster. This PO closed on November 21, 1860. In 2002, the township residents approved a 1-mill tax renewal which was used to start its police department in December ending a contract with Genesee County Sheriff Department. The department started with two full-time and four part-time officers. From 2004 to 2008, the 10 officer department issued over $516 thousand in tickets making it one of the top three in Genesee County not considering the City of Flint. On November 3, 2009, a successful recall took place removing the township supervisor, Bruce Beatty, and two trustees, ...
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