Otsego Township is a civil township of Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,903 at the 2020 census. The city of Otsego is located within the township, but is administratively autonomous.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.86%, is water.
Demographics
As of the census near the junction of Pine Creek and the Kalamazoo river in Otsego Township, Allegan County, Michigan. It was approximately two miles west of the present day city of Otsego. The site was first explored in 1829 by Giles Scott and the Sherwoods of Rochester, New York, Samuel Foster from Vermont, and Turner Aldrich Jr. of Cattaraugus County, New York, while searching for pine tracts and a location to construct a mill site.
Hull Sherwood platted the village named New Rochester at Pine Creek, which remained a prominent settlement through the 1830s. but some economic activity continued in the Pine Creek area. In 1850 another saw mill was constructed two miles south of the Pine Creek settlement, known as Leighton's Saw Mill.