Forest Township, Genesee County, Michigan

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Forest Township is a civil township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Survey township designation is 9 north and 8 east. The population was 4,447 at the 2020 census, which makes Forest Township the least populated township in Genesee County.

Communities

• Otisville is a small village within the township.
• Otter Lake is a small village partially within the township in the northeast corner, and is also in Lapeer County's Marathon Township.

History

On March 1, 1836, James Seymour purchased the property first in the future Township in section 36. Henry Heister, with his wife and three children, were the first settlers in the spring of 1837, coming from Livingston County. His home was on the Butternut Creek on the piece of property he purchased, the southwest quarter of section 19. Heister's son, George, was the first born in the Township. With in a few years after arriving, he move to Genesee Township.

Huntingtown was an unincorporated community in the township that existed in 1873 on State Road (M-15) north of Vienna Road (M-57) and south of Farrand Road at Butternut Creek. In 1885, the first schoolhouse, the Smith school house, was built at the northeast corner of section 33.