Shiawassee County, Michigan
Burns Township Real Estate and Local Guide
Rural township in southeastern Shiawassee County on the Shiawassee River, surrounding the incorporated village of Byron, with predominantly owner-occupied single-family homes
Living in Burns Township
Site of Whitmore Knaggs's 1820 fur-trading post, established to trade with the local Ojibwe fifteen years before the township was organized in 1835. Source: en.wikipedia.org
Homes in Burns Township
What makes Burns Township home
Shiawassee River
The Shiawassee River flows through the township and the village of Byron, part of the river valley that drew the area's earliest settlement
Byron Cemetery
Within the village of Byron at Hamilton and East streets; a 1998 Michigan historical marker notes some 1,600 nineteenth-century graves, including 56 Civil War soldiers and veterans
Byron Village Park
Sesquicentennial village park within the village of Byron that hosts community festivals; the township itself maintains no municipal park
Burns Township areas to know
Union Plains
Unincorporated community in the township at the intersection of Grand River Road and Reed Road
Byron
Separately incorporated village (incorporated 1873) located within the township; maintains its own record