Canton
Sign in to saveAlso known as Canton Charter Township, Canton Township, Canton, Michigan, Canton, MI
charter township in Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Wayne
- Supervisor
- Anne Marie Graham-Hudak
- Clerk
- Michael Siegrist
- Treasurer
- Dian Slavens
- Charter township
- 36.14 sq mi (93.6 km )
- Land
- 36.11 sq mi (93.5 km )
- Water
- 0.03 sq mi (0.078 km )
- Elevation
- 679 ft (207 m)
- Density
- 2,732.2/sq mi (1,054.9/km )
- Metro
- 4,285,832 ( Metro Detroit )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Zip code s
- 48187, 48188
- Fips code
- 26-13120
- Website
- www .cantonmi .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Canton Township (commonly known simply as Canton) is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western suburb of Detroit, Canton is located roughly 23 miles (37.0 km) west of downtown Detroit, and 15 miles (24.1 km) east of Ann Arbor. As of the 2020 census, the township had a population of 98,659, making it Michigan's second most-populated township (after Clinton Township) and ninth most-populated municipality overall.
Communities
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations