Blumfield Township is a civil township of Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the township population was 1,874.
History
Blumfield Township was founded in 1853 by Carl Post and George F. Veenfliet named after Robert Blum. It was the site of one sawmill and several farms around 1880. At that point it had been primarily settled by immigrants from Germany. Most of these immigrants were people who had favored the 1848 reforms and left in the wake of their suppression.
Communities
- Arthur, or Blumfield Junction was a small community with a station on a branch of the Michigan Central Railroad. A post office operated as Blumfield Junction from May 31, 1862, to October 20, 1880. It reopened as Arthur and operated from December 1880 until October 1904. It was located on M-15 between the junctions with M-81 to the north and M-83 to the south.
- Blumfield Corners is a small unincorporated community on M-15 at Block Road a few miles northwest of Richville and about a mile east of the junction with M-83 and about a mile north of M-46 at
- Frankentrost (once also called Trostville) is a small unincorporated community at M-46 and Mueller Road a few miles west the junction with M-83 at . It was established in 1847 by a community of Lutheran immigrants from Bavaria.
- The village of Reese is over the eastern boundary in Tuscola County, though some development is in the township.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
As of the census