Cambria Township, Michigan

Cambria Township is a civil township of Hillsdale County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,229 at the 2020 census.

History

Cambria Township was established in 1841 and named after Cambria, New York, which was the hometown of many of the area's early settlers.

Bankers is an unincorporated community located in the northern portion of the township on the border with Hillsdale Township at . The community was founded by Horace and George Banker in 1838 and was platted in 1869. In 1871, a railway line of the Detroit, Hillsdale & Indiana Railroad was built through the area, in which Bankers was the southern terminus of a line that ran north to Ypsilanti. Bankers centered around a sawmill and was referred to as Bankers Station, and a post office operated here from January 30, 1872 until January 31, 1909.
Cambria is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in the southern portion of the township at .
Steamburg is an unincorporated community located within the township at . It was named from the steam sawmill built by Chauncey Ferris, and the community had its own post office from December 9, 1896 until May 31, 1902. The community was the location of the historic Bates homestead, which was heavily damaged in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak and later demolished.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (3.68%) is water.

As of the census

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