Hume Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 739.
Communities
- The village of Kinde is at the southeast corner of the township, though none of it is within the township.
- Port Crescent is a ghost town at the mouth of the Pinnebog River on Lake Huron and is now part of Port Crescent State Park.
- Pinnebog is a tiny unincorporated community in the southwest of the township, on the boundary with Meade Township at Kinde and Pinnebog roads .
History
The township is named after the first white settler in the area, Walter Hume, who arrived and built the first house in the 1850s. He also opened a hotel at the mouth of the Pinnebog River, which was probably the first such structure in this part of the county. Township government was organized in 1860, with the election being held at Hume's store and with Hume being elected the first supervisor. The land was once covered by stands of pine trees, which were long ago cleared and sent to saw mills at Port Crescent on the mouth of the Pinnebog River. The Port Huron Fire of 1871 and Thumb Fire of 1881 also destroyed much remaining timber land.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (0.10%) is water.
Demographics
As of the census