Hickory Corners is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in Barry Township in Barry County,

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, United States. The population was 313 at the 2020 census.

History

The first settler, the Rev. Moses Lawrence, built his home in 1834 on the shore of Lawrence Lake about a half mile east of the present town. In 1837, surveyors found a large

hickory Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus ''Carya'', which includes 19 species accepted by ''Plants of the World Online''. Seven species are native to southeast Asia in China, Indochina, and northeastern India (Assam), and twelve ...

tree in the center of section 28, from which the settlement took its name. Solomon C. Hall built the first house in the town and became the first postmaster in July 1844.

Geography

Hickory Corners is located in southwestern Barry County at the intersection of Kellogg School Road and West Hickory Road. It is north of the southern boundary of Barry County with Kalamazoo County and east of state highway M-43. According to the

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, the Hickory Corners CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.28%, is water.

Demographics

Sites of interest

The

Gilmore Car Museum The Gilmore Car Museum is an automobile museum located in Hickory Corners, Michigan, United States. The museum exhibits over 400 vintage and collector vehicles and motorcycles from all eras in several vintage buildings located on a 90-acre camp ...

, a collection of classic automobiles, is located at the intersection of M-43 and West Hickory Road, with a Hickory Corners mailing address. The museum includes the Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame. The Kellogg Biological Station, an off-campus education complex of

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...

, has a Hickory Corners mailing address and is located southwest of the center of town, on the northeast shore of Gull Lake.

Media

On the CBS TV series '' The Neighborhood'', the character Gemma is from Hickory Corners. Her husband, Dave, is from East Kalamazoo.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hickory Corners, Michigan Census-designated places in Michigan Unincorporated communities in Barry County, Michigan Grand Rapids metropolitan area