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Wyoming
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city in Kent County, Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Kent
- Organized
- 1848 (Wyoming Township)
- Type
- Mayor–council
- Mayor
- Kent Vanderwood
- Manager
- Curtis Holt
- Clerk
- Kelli VandenBerg
- Total
- 24.95 sq mi (64.62 km )
- Land
- 24.74 sq mi (64.08 km )
- Water
- 0.21 sq mi (0.54 km )
- Elevation
- 666 ft (203 m)
- Density
- 3,092.0/sq mi (1,193.84/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Zip code s
- 49418 ( Grandville ), 49503 ( Grand Rapids ), 49508 ( Kentwood ), 49509, 49519, 49548 ( Grand Rapids )
- Fips code
- 26-88940
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
City of Wyoming | Wyoming, MI
wyomingmi.gov →Link to the official site · 40,000 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
Wyoming is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 76,501 at the 2020 census. Part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, Wyoming is bordered by Grand Rapids to the northeast and, after Grand Rapids, it is the second most-populous city in West Michigan.
European-Americans settled the area in 1832 along Buck Creek, and it was organized as Wyoming Township in 1848 after separating from Byron Township. Through the 19th and early 20th centuries, Wyoming remained a rural area providing goods to Grand Rapids, until the Grand Rapids, Holland and Chicago Railway spurred suburbanization. After Grandville was incorporated in 1933 and the General Motors Stamping Division Plant opened, Wyoming faced annexation disputes with Grand Rapids and Grandville until incorporating as a city in 1959.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wyoming” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.