Boardman Township is a civil township of Kalkaska County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 1,479.

Communities

  • Crofton is an unincorporated community approximately northeast of South Boardman along US 131 at . It was founded and platted by Peter Duthie, David E. and Anna Meek, and John S. and Sarah Harper. They named it for E. Crofton Fox, from whom they had bought the land. A post office operated from October 1875 to November 1884 and again from March 1886 until January 1909. It was a station on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad.
  • Houseman is an unincorporated community at .
  • South Boardman is an unincorporated community and census-designated place near the center of the township.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (0.50%) is water.

US Highway 131 runs diagonally northeast–southwest through the township.

Demographics

As of the census