Union Lake is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Oakland County
Oakland County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a principal county of the Detroit metropolitan area, containing the bulk of Detroit's northern suburbs. Its seat of government is Pontiac, and its largest city is Troy. As of the ...
in the
U.S. state
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of
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
. It is located at the junction of four townships:
Commerce
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,
Waterford
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,
West Bloomfield, and
White Lake.
[
As an unincorporated community, Union Lake has no legally defined area or population statistics of its own, but it does have its own post office with the 48387 ZIP Code, which is used for P.O. Boxes only. Otherwise, the area uses the 48327 Waterford ZIP Code.
]
References
External links
Lakes Area Chamber of CommerceUnion Lake Shores Association, Inc.
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Unincorporated communities in Oakland County, Michigan
Unincorporated communities in Michigan
Metro Detroit