Stannard Township is a

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of Ontonagon County in the

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. The population was 645 at the 2020 census.

O Kun de Kun Falls O Kun de Kun Falls is a waterfall of the Baltimore River north of Bruce Crossing, Michigan, Bruce Crossing, in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The Falls There are two drops that make up O Kun de Kun Falls. The North Country Trail parallels both of t ...

is located within the township.

Geography

According to the

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, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (0.02%) is water. The western portion of the township is drained by the Baltimore River and its tributaries.

is located on the Baltimore River, in the northern part of the township. The middle and eastern portions are drained, respectively, by the middle and east branches of the

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Communities

* Bruce Crossing is an

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and

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in the township. *Paynesville is an unincorporated community on M-28 and the Soo Line about three miles east of Bruce Crossing at . It was named after the Payne family who owned homesteads nearby. It was a stop on the

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. On the SE corner, at the intersection of Blacksmith Rd and N Paynesville Road, in Paynesville, resides a historic Finnish

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Church.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2020, there were 645 people, 315 households, and 189 families residing in the township. The

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was 5.16 per square mile (1.99/km). There were 495 housing units at an average density of 3.96 per square mile (1.53/km). There were 613

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, making the township 95.04%

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, 1.39%

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, 0.46% Asian, 0.31% Black or African American, and 2.63% from

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of any race were 0.31% of the population. Among people reporting ancestry, 43.3% reported Finnish ancestry, 18.6% identified their ancestry as

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, followed by 12.4% reporting

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ancestry. Other ancestries reported were 6.5% Irish, 4.7%

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, 2.8%

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

, 2.0%

Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...

, 1.7%

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

, 1.6%

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, 1.1%

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

, 1.1% Ukrainian, 0.5%

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, 0.5%

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, 0.3%

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, 0.3%

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, and 0.3% Scotch-Irish ancestry. There were 315 households, out of which 10.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.5% were

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living together, 5.4% had a male householder with no spouse present, 4.1% had a female householder with no spouse present, and 40.0% were non-families. 34.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 22.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.02 and the average family size was 2.58. In the township the population was spread out, although skewing older, with 10.3% under the age of 18, 4.9% from 18 to 24, 15.0% from 25 to 44, 34.5% from 45 to 64, and 35.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 57.2 years. For every 100 females, there were 129.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 124.1 males. The median income for a household in the township was $32,917, and the median income for a family was $51,125. Males had a median income of $40,125 versus $30,391 for females. The

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for the township was $21,133. About 14.3% of families and 20.9% of the population were below the

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, including 23.9% of those under age 18 and 15.2% of those age 65 or over.

References

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