Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Greenland Township, Michigan


Related Topics

In the News (Fri 4 Jul 08)

  
  Greenland Township, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greenland Township is a township located in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
In the township the population is spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 4.5% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 30.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who are 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the township is $31,574, and the median income for a family is $37,917.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greenland_Township,_Michigan   (372 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ontonagon-County,-Michigan
Harbor of Ontonagon Ontonagon is a village in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
Ontonagon Township is a township in Ontonagon County, Michigan.
The Charter Township of Canton is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ontonagon_County,_Michigan   (2545 words)

  
 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Michigan, Lake Michigan, Lake, 22,178 sq mi (57,441 sq km), 307 mi (494 km) long and 30 to 120 mi (48-193 km) wide, bordered by Mich., Ind., Ill., and Wis.; third largest of the Great Lakes and the only one entirely within the United States.
Michigan, University of Michigan, University of, main campus at Ann Arbor; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1817 at Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or Univ., of Michigania, rechartered 1821 (as Univ. of Mich.) and 1837 (when it was relocated at Ann Arbor).
Greenland -> Economy Fishing (shrimp, cod, halibut, salmon) is the main industry, and dozens of processing plants have been constructed in the southern and southwestern areas.
www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Greenland+Township,+Michigan   (598 words)

  
 greenland
Greenland (in Danish: Grønland\, and in Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, literal meaning: "Land of the human") is the world's largest island, about 84% ice-cappedped (or ice-sheeted).
The extreme north of Greenland is not covered by an ice cap (indicated as pale blue in the map to the right), because the air there is too dry to produce snow, which is essential in the production and maintenance of an ice cap.
Greenland is also a place name in the State of New Hampshire in the United States of America.
www.fact-library.com /greenland.html   (367 words)

  
 Haight Township, Michigan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Haight Township is a township located in (Click link for more info and facts about Ontonagon County, Michigan) Ontonagon County, Michigan.
In the township the population is spread out with 18.9% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 23.7% from 25 to 44, 28.1% from 45 to 64, and 21.9% who are 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the township is $30,104, and the median income for a family is $33,438.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Haight_Township,_Michigan.htm   (433 words)

  
 Townships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
November 10, 1908, as Ladbury township, its name was changed to Sibley, January 19, 1909, and finally to Sibley Trail Township, April 13, 1910, for the route of General Sibley through the northern part of Barnes County and particularly for the place where he crossed the Sheyenne River.
January 28, 1891, the township was named for the rural PO of Skandia, and was settled mainly by Norwegians and Swedes, many of whom came in the early 1880's.
Since the township is immediately north of Standing Rock, the first settlers who came in 1878 found Indians nearby frequently, and Ole Baarstad, the settler nearest to Standing Rock, often bartered milk for venison in 1879 and 1880.
www.webfamilytree.com /townships1.htm   (3157 words)

  
 Greenland Township, Michigan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Greenland Township is a township located in (Click link for more info and facts about Ontonagon County, Michigan) Ontonagon County, Michigan.
The (The total national income divided by the number of people in the nation) per capita income for the township is $16,152.
Out of the total population, 12.6% of those under the age of 18 and 8.7% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gr/Greenland_Township,_Michigan.htm   (432 words)

  
 Detailed Country Profile: Greenland
Of the eight countries which include the word "democratic" in their conventional long form name, three are dictatorships: North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Laos (Lao People's Democratic Republic) and the Democratic republic of the Congo.
Vikings reached the island in the 10th century from Iceland; Danish colonization began in the 18th century and Greenland was made an integral part of Denmark in 1953.
Greenland was granted self-government in 1979 by the Danish parliament.
www.nationmaster.com /country/gl   (210 words)

  
 Greenland Township, Michigan Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Greenland Township, Michigan Info - Bored Net - Boredom
\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 293.2 km² (113.2 mi²).
\nAs of the census of 2000, there are 870 people, 378 households, and 246 families residing in the township.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/g/gr/greenland_township__michigan.html   (356 words)

  
 ReadingGroupGuides.com - Q Road by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Greenland Township, Michigan: On the same acres where farmers once displaced Potawatomi Indians, suburban developers now supplant farmers and prefab homes spring up in last year's cornfields.
April May believes that Greenland farmers and the new residents in the prefab houses can get along "if only everyone would be sensible and tolerant" (174).
She muses that a natural disaster like the tornado of 1934 might rally Greenland to a common cause "the way God used to" (175).
www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/q_road1.asp   (1177 words)

  
 INTRODUCTION AND MISSION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Greenland Township is located 12 miles southeast of Ontonagon, and 2 hours west of Marquette, located in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, near Lake Superior.
My name is Kevin Patana and I am a member of the Greenland Township Volunteer Fire Department.
The Township of Greenland is a very large area.
www.angelfire.com /mi/toolman/PAGE17.html   (190 words)

  
 Student Book Competition - David J. Piotrowski
Larry Lankton a historian at Michigan Technological University, recognized the isolation within the beautiful backdrop of the Keweenaw Peninsula and is the first person to collect and publish the pioneers feelings about travel, work, woods, and especially winter.
This volume provides nice early descriptions of the sights and sound of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan including: descriptions of the shore lines, lives of the voyagers, the pleasures of food in the wilderness and sleeping under a blanket of stars, collecting agates, Native American fishing at Sault Ste Marie, and northern lights.
This book is a local history of Greenland township, Ontonagon County Michigan which includes the mining towns of Greenland and Mass City.
www.lib.msu.edu /events/contest/Piotrowski2001.html   (3267 words)

  
 Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950-1957
Bahá'í literature in Greenlandic, previously disseminated as far as Thule, Etah, beyond the Arctic Circle, has been dispatched to radio station in Brondlundsfjord, Peary Land, eighty-second latitude, northernmost outpost of the globe.
Bahá'u'lláh's residence in Akká, the scene of severe crises in the course of the ministries of the Founder of the Faith and the Center of His Covenant renovated and furnished, are added to the Holy Places already opened to the steadily swelling number of visitors both local and foreign.
Northern outposts of the Faith reinforced by the settlement of pioneers in Edgedes Minde, Greenland, and in Yellowknife, Canadian North Western Territories.
www.ibiblio.org /Bahai/TrueSeeker-2.0/src/MBW.html-fn   (7412 words)

  
 Greenland, Michigan MI, township profile (Ontonagon County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Michigan > All counties > Ontonagon County > Greenland
Greenland, MI Greenland is a township in Ontonagon County.
Median rent in Greenland, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $188.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=267669   (420 words)

  
 Greenland Township, MI - Information & Resources about Township of Greenland Michigan
Greenland is a township located in Ontonagon County, Michigan, United States.
Greenland is located at 46°46'45" North, 89°6'6" West (46.779444, -89.101667).
Greenland is located in the Eastern Standard Time (EST) timezone, GMT-05:00.
us.cqww.net /city_info.php/cityid/18997   (96 words)

  
 The Very Best Books : Q Road : A Novel
As carefully stitched together as a patchwork quilt, with colorful squares made of quirky characters, the inhabitants of Greenland Township, Michigan, are bound by the commonality of their daily labor and innate love of their farmland.
The Darwinian inevitability of nature vs. progress lurks around the perimeter of Greenland Township and Campbell skillfully portrays the hardships and realities of farming, as even the vigorous landscape becomes a vital player in the drama.
While I picked up this book because of the story's location, (outside Kalamazoo, Michigan where my daughter lives,) I was immediately drawn into this rural world peopled by an array of eclectic and sympathetic characters struggling with the onslaught of family farms being devoured by development.
www.elise.com /store/Reviews/ItemId/0743203666   (1086 words)

  
 FLOWER DELIVERY Michigan MI | Michigan FTD Florist | Michigan Flower Shop
Our flower shop delivery will assist you in any city in MI Michigan.
Flowers for any occasion, birthdays, anniversaries, parties, special occasions or to remember someone in Michigan.
OFFICIAL SEAL: The coat of arms surrounded by the words "The Great Seal of the State of Michigan" and the date "AD MDCCCXXXV" (1835, the year the first state constitution was adopted).
www.wesleyberryflowers.com /flowers_MI_michigan.html   (412 words)

  
 Q Road -- book review
Her journey across an ocean and through three marriages, a daughter's birth, poverty, wealth, and accusations of murder and witchcraft is dramatized in Jennifer M. Wilson's
As carefully constructed as a patchwork quilt, with colorful squares of quirky characters marching boldly from border to border, the denizens of Greenland Township, Michigan, are bound by the continuity of daily labor and an innate love of a rich and productive land.
Encroaching suburbia threatens Greenland Township as much as a failing farm economy; reconstituted city people are willing to tolerate only so much discomfort in their newly constructed rural environment.
www.curledup.com /qroad.htm   (386 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002021040   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Welcome to Q Road, in Greenland Township, where the old way of life is colliding with the new.
At the heart of this tale are three characters so integrally connected and devoted to the Harland farm that they might not survive anywhere else their lives, their livelihoods, and their sometimes violent love for one another are all rooted in the soil of this square mile.
Brilliant atumn foliage creates the backdrop for the rich and ragged human landscape of rural southwestern Michigan, a place Campbell has explored in her award-winning short stories.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/simon032/2002021040.html   (252 words)

  
 Fertilizers and the Watershed, Bloomfield Township, Michigan (MI)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Township’s lakes, streams, wetlands, drains and natural watercourses are precious commodities and must be preserved.
In 2001, the Township Board established a policy by resolution to monitor the application of fertilizers that are used in the Township by registering commercial applicators and by providing guidelines for fertilizer application rates.
Soil in the Township is naturally rich in phosphorus and does not need it in fertilizers.
www.bloomfieldtwp.org /Community/Environment/Fertilizers.htm   (389 words)

  
 Bonnie Jo Campbell - Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The narrative tension builds on the repeated suggestion throughout the first half of the novel that something disastrous will happen this day, something that combines the kind of poor judgment that can only be human with the horrifically detached forces of nature.
David is biking toward Greenland Township's oldest barn, which he is scheduled to help farmer George Harland fill with straw.
George's obsession with and marriage to Rachel has surprised everyone in Greenland-he was formerly so prudent, reserved, and dedicated to his farm that his first wife left from sheer boredom.
www.bonniejocampbell.com /burn.html   (947 words)

  
 Heart Institute at Marquette General donates AED to Greenland Township Fire Department - Press Release - Marquette ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Patana is the chief of the Greenland Township Fire Department.
At right is Dagmar Prout, program director of the Upper Michigan Heart Institute at MGHS.
— Kevin Patana couldn’t conceal his appreciation when asked about a life-saving device that the Upper Michigan Heart Institute at Marquette General Health System donated to the Greenland Township Fire Department in Mass City.
www.mgh.org /press/heart3.html   (454 words)

  
 Rocks & Minerals: History and mineralogy of the Indiana Mine Ontonagon County, Michigan: ninth in a series of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Rocks and Minerals: History and mineralogy of the Indiana Mine Ontonagon County, Michigan: ninth in a series of articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan's Copper Country
The individual crystals, which range from less than 1 cm to groups more than 38 cm in length, constitute one of the major crystallized copper finds in the Copper Country in recent years.
The 2-square-mile property is owned by the state of Michigan and is traversed by Highway 26 on the northwest side and by the abandoned Copper Range Railroad grade on the southeast boundary.
www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m0GDX/5_78/107757208/p1/article.jhtml   (1388 words)

  
 Ontonagon Township Library Ontonagon, Michigan (Libraries)
Ontonagon Township Library, serving an area of 4,200 residents, has a collection of 37,000 books and periodicals; in addition, there are 1,260 CDs, records, cassettes and other audio materials, as well as 154 video items, such as DVDs and VHS tapes.
Greenland Township Library is affiliated with the Ontonagon Township...
Rockland Township Library is affiliated with the Ontonagon Township...
www.ohwy.com /mi/p/plmi0254.htm   (164 words)

  
 Bigfoot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is Sasquatch to Canadians, Lummakaka to Upper Michigans Finnish settlers and Windigo to the woodland Native Americans.
Two bear hunters in a very remote area found three sets of very fresh tracks, two of them 8-10 inches long and the other 15-16 inches long.
A bear hunter encountered a Bigfoot in Greenland Township near the Firesteel River.
chabbu_x.tripod.com /superiorcrypto/id12.html   (391 words)

  
 1870 Census - Compiled and presented by the Library of Michigan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Welcome to the search feature of the Michigan 1870 Census.
To perform a search, enter as much information as possible in the form below.
If you are searching for one of these names, it will be necessary to use the wildcard search to see them.
envoy.libofmich.lib.mi.us /1870_census/Search.asp?MenuItem=Search   (110 words)

  
 Michigan Volunteer Fire Departments on Almondnet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Find michigan fire service directory and more at Lycos Search.
Read about michigan fire service directory in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
EMS Michigan - Current Michigan EMS class objectives...
www.siuk.org.uk /schb/michigan_volunteer_fire_departments.html   (473 words)

  
 Q Road : A Novel
What it is to believe in God, what it is to love another person, to gasp even for air: all these...
Victims of violent acts of their past, broken marriages, rural recession and self-abuse, they gain pleasure from the misery of others.
The plot revolves around one man's attempt to continue farming against the odds (and fate itself.) While the theme is both grand and timely, it is the people who live on Q Road that make this book one of the most...
www.literacyconnections.com /0_B0006I8JF4.html   (616 words)

  
 FLOWERS HARRISON TOWNSHIP MI MICHIGAN FLORIST DELIVERY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Fast same day Harrison Township, Michigan Flower Delivery.
If you want to send flowers, rose, plants, bouquets or balloons to Harrison Township, Michigan then you have come to the right place.
Harrison Township, Michigan Flower Delivery is a service provided by 1010 Flowers.
1010flowers.com /harrisontownship.htm   (163 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.