Hinton Township, Michigan

Hinton Township is a civil township of Mecosta County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 1,054.

Communities

There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. There are some unincorporated communities or named locales in the northern portion of the township along 5 Mile Road:

• Altona is in the northwest part of the township, located where 5 Mile Road crosses the Little Muskegon River at In 1868, William Seaton and Bartley Davis built a sawmill and Harrison J. Brown a flour mill on the Little Muskegon where the village of Altona was later platted, but never incorporated. A post office operated from February 1872 until November 1937.
• Sylvester is in the north central part of the township by the junction of 85th Avenue and 5 Mile Road, approximately east of Altona and west of Halls Corner at David Fowler opened the first store in Hinton Township here in 1868. A post office operated from September 1872 until July 1904 and was named for Sylvester Dresser, a pioneer lumberman in the area.