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Battle Creek
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city in Calhoun County, Michigan, United States
Battle Creek is a city located in Calhoun County in Michigan. It is known historically as a center for cereal production and health-related innovation.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Battle Creek
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Calhoun County
- Population
- 52721
- Area
- 113.241094
- Elevation
- 256
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Hastings
- Official website
- ci.battle-creek.mi.us
- Image
- Battle Creek, Michigan (2008).jpg
- Households
- 20690
- Dialing code
- 269
Show 9 more facts
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Battle Creek, Michigan
- topic's main category
- Category:Battle Creek, Michigan
- inception
- 1831-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Battle Creek, Michigan
- postal code
- 49037
- P8168
- Kristy Swanson
- water as percent of area
- 2.5544
- per capita income
- 25270
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Encyclopedic overview
Battle Creek is a city in northwestern Calhoun County, Michigan, United States, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 52,731. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Calhoun County. Nicknamed "Cereal City", it is best known as the home of WK Kellogg Co and the founding city of Post Consumer Brands. In Battle Creek, the Kellogg brothers invented the first cereal by accident in an attempt to make granola.
Toponym
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