Ira and Deborah Preston bought 400 acres (1.6 km 2) of land from the United States government in 1826 and settled on it the following year, later building a sawmill and a picket fence factory. There are no incorporated villages and four unincorporated communities: The township is drained by the Clinton River, a tributary of Lake St. Mount Clemens, the Macomb county seat, is 11 miles (18 km) to the southeast, and downtown Detroit is 24 miles (39 km) to the south.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.2 square miles (91 km 2), of which 34.4 square miles (89 km 2) are land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2), or 2.31%, are water. The cities of Utica and Sterling Heights border the township to the south. Shelby Township is in western Macomb County and is bordered to the west by the cities of Rochester and Rochester Hills in Oakland County. See also: 'The Lost Village of Disco' on the Shelby Township Historical Society website. Only a few homes and a namesake on old county road maps remain of this now forgotten historic place. The community never incorporated, although the local high school, the Disco Academy, gained some local recognition and a post office named Disco operated from May 5, 1854, until July 31, 1906. The village incorporated a second time on May 10, 1877. Utica, located on the southern edge of the township, originally incorporated as a village on March 9, 1838, although that corporation was dissolved soon afterwards. It originally included the area that is now Sterling Heights, which was set off March 17, 1835, as the township of Jefferson, renamed to Sterling on March 6, 1838. Shelby Township was set off by an act of the Michigan Territorial Legislature on April 12, 1827, and a civil government was organized the following May. Shelby Charter Township is one of the fastest-growing communities in Metro Detroit. The township is an affluent northern suburb of Detroit. Shelby Charter Township, officially the Charter Township of Shelby, is a charter township located in Macomb County in the U.S.

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