Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan | |
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City of Grand Rapids | |
![]() Images frae tap tae bottom, left tae richt: downtown cityscape, Meyer May House, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, La Grande Vitesse, pedestrian brig ower the Grand River, Van Andel Arena, Grand Valley State Varsity's Cook–DeVos Center on the Medical Mile | |
Eik-name(s): GR, The River City, Beer City USA, Furniture City | |
![]() Location o Grand Rapids athin Kent Coonty, Michigan | |
Coordinates: 42°57′40.5″N 85°39′20.59″W / 42.961250°N 85.6557194°WCoordinates: 42°57′40.5″N 85°39′20.59″W / 42.961250°N 85.6557194°W | |
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Coonty | Kent |
Foondit | 1826 |
Incorporation | 1850 |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Ceety Commission-Manager |
• Mayor | Rosalynn Bliss |
• Ceety Manager | Greg Sundstrom |
Area | |
• Ceety | 117.25 km2 (45.27 sq mi) |
• Laund | 115.00 km2 (44.40 sq mi) |
• Water | 2.25 km2 (0.87 sq mi) 1.92% |
Elevation | 200 m (640 ft) |
Population (2015)[4] | |
• Ceety | 195,097 |
• Rank | 123rd in US |
• Density | 1685.2/km2 (4364.7/sq mi) |
• Urban (2010) | 569,935 (US: 70t) |
• Metro | 1,038,583[2] (US: 52nt) |
• CSA | 1421374[3] (US: 38t) |
Demonym(s) | Grand Rapidian |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
Area code(s) | 616 |
FIPS code | 26-34000 |
GNIS featur ID | 0627105[5] |
Website | www.grcity.us |
Grand Rapids is the seicont-lairgest ceety in Michigan, an the lairgest ceety in Wast Michigan. It is locatit on the Grand River aboot 30 mile east o Loch Michigan. As o the 2010 census, the ceety population wis 188,040. In 2010, the Grand Rapids metropolitan aurie haed a population o 1,005,648, an the combined statistical aurie o Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland haed a population o 1,321,557. Grand Rapids is the coonty seat o Kent County, Michigan.[6]
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- ↑ "Metro Population Estimates". Retrieved 28 Mairch 2015.
- ↑ "CSA Population Estimates". Retrieved 28 Mairch 2015.
- ↑ "Population Estimates".
- ↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 25 October 2001. Retrieved 31 Januar 2009.
- ↑ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived frae the original on 26 Juin 2008. Retrieved 31 Januar 2009.
Further readin[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Carron, Christian G. (1998). Grand Rapids Furniture: The Story of America's Furniture City. Grand Rapids, MI: Grand Rapids Public Museum.
- Fernández, Delia (Spring 2013). "Becoming Latino: Mexican and Puerto Rican Community Formation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1926–1964". Michigan Historical Review. 39: 71–100. doi:10.5342/michhistrevi.39.1.0071.
- Jelks, Randal Maurice (2006). African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids. University of Illinois Press.
- Robinson, Todd E. (2013). A City Within a City: The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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