Mundy Township, Michigan
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Charter Township of Mundy Mundy Township |
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| Charter township | |
 Charter Township of Mundy
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| Coordinates: 42°54′52″N 83°45′02″W / 42.91444°N 83.75056°WCoordinates: 42°54′52″N 83°45′02″W / 42.91444°N 83.75056°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Michigan |
| County | Genesee |
| Settled | 1833 |
| Organized | 1837 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Supervisor-board |
| • Supervisor | David Guigear |
| • Clerk | Tonya Ketzler |
| • Treasurer | Joe Oskey |
| • Trustee | Betty Harrison Bill Morey Dennis Owens Kay Doerr |
| Area | |
| • Total | 36.1 sq mi (93.4 km2) |
| • Land | 36.0 sq mi (93.2 km2) |
| • Water | 0.1 sq mi (0.3 km2) |
| Elevation | 830 ft (253 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 12,191 |
| • Density | 338.8/sq mi (130.8/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 48473 (Swartz Creek), 48507 (Flint), 48439 (Grand Blanc) |
| Area code(s) | 810 |
| FIPS code | 26-56160 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1626779 |
| Website | http://www.mundytwp-mi.gov/ |
| Metro Police Authority of Genesee County | |
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| Common name | Metro Police Authority |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 2015 |
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| Legal personality | Non government: Governmental body corporate |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | Police area of in the state of Michigan, US |
| Population | 17,949 |
| Legal jurisdiction | Michigan |
| Governing body | Police Authority Board |
| Constituting instrument | Interlocal Agreement Establishing the Metro Police Authority of Genesee County |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Grand Blanc Road, Rankin, Mundy Township, Michigan |
| Police officers | 29 |
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| Agency executive | Dan Atkinson, Chief of Police |
| Facilities | |
| K9s | 1 |
| Footnotes | |
| * Police area agency: Prescribed geographic area in the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Charter Township of Mundy is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,082 at the 2010 census.
The survey area township that Mundy mostly covers is range 5 North and 5 East.
The township has two unincorporated communities within its borders:
In 1833, the first land purchases in Mundy survey township area were made on sections 11-14, with all 40 acres (160,000 m2) in the section purchased by 1837. The first settlement was in section 13 by Jason L. Austin, Daniel Williams and Eli Gilbert. The Township was named after Edward S. Mundy, lieutenant governor, when organized on March 11, 1837 included the survey township that would become Gaines Township. On March 9, 1842, Gaines was split off from Mundy.
In southern part of the township north of Mount Pleasant, a settlement on the north side of Long Lake (now Lake Fenton), Morgan Baldwin and George Judson settled the location around Baldwin Road soon called Podunk.
A post office opened in the township on May 1, 1848 and was moved to Mt. Pleasant as Long Lake Post Office on March 6, 1851. The office returned to Mundy on March 24, 1852. On March 9, 1855, the Elgin Post Office was opened with postmaster William Moore and was located at Mason Tavern along the Fenton plank road on the Southeast corner of section 13. On April 12, 1871, the Elgin post office was closed. The Mundy Post Office was closed on December 31, 1900.
In January and February 2014, Swartz Creek City and Gaines Township was contact by Mundy Township Supervisor David L. Guigear in attempt to meet over regionalization of building department, code enforcement, janitorial and especial police. On April 2, 2014, Gaines Township turned down a police department merger with Mundy Township.
On January 9, 2016, the Swartz Creek City Council voted to disband its police department by merging the department with Mundy Township's into the Metro Police Authority of Genesee County effective February 1, 2016.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 36.1 square miles (93 km2), of which 36.0 square miles (93 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.28%) is water. A portion of the township survey area, between Jennings and Torrey Road, was annexed by the City of Flint for Bishop International Airport.
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