๐บ๐ธ Grand Blanc is a city in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and a suburb of Flint. It is part of the Flint metropolitan area.
1History The unincorporated village of Grand Blanc, or Grumlaw, was a former Indian campground first settled by Jacob Stevens in spring 1822. Several years later, settlers improved the Indian trail to Saginaw; they laid out and staked it in 1829 as Saginaw Road. Grand Blanc Township was formed in 1833 with area that would become the city. The township centre began to boom in 1864 with the arrival of the railroad (now known as the CSX Saginaw Subdivision). With the post office there, the village was called Grand Blanc Centre by 1873, with the former Grand Blanc assuming the name Gibsonville (not Gibbonsville.)
By 1916, the community (population 400) had a grade school, a private bank, flour mill, an elevator, a creamery, and two churches, the Methodist Episcopal and the Congregational. The community was equipped with electrical lighting.
On January 1 2024, the winning ticket for the first Powerball lottery of the new year was sold at Food Castle, a food and liquor store in Grand Blanc. The $842.4 million jackpot represented the fifth-largest in Powerball history and the tenth-largest jackpot ever in U.S. lottery history at the time of the drawing.
1City Grand Blanc Centre incorporated as the City of Grand Blanc in 1930. In 1939, the township and the city started a joint fire department. In the 1970s, the Grand Blanc city, township and school district formed a joint parks and recreation department under a commission with 2 members from each entity. In 1973, Grand Blanc-McFarlen Library, was built featuring approximately 45,000 books and offering a host of other materials.
A ballot question in the May 2, 2006 Genesee County general election ended governmental research into a plan to consolidate the city and township governments; 68.62% of city voters opposed consolidation efforts whereas 31.38% were in favor.
On January 20, 2019, the Township Board voted to rescind its joint fire department agreement in 90 days unless a new agreement is reached. After eight decades of a shared fire department with Grand Blanc Township, the city decided to start up their own department starting July 25, 2019, and named a fire chief. Previously, the joint department was funded by each municipal levying a special levy of 0.5 mil for the department and designating 0.5 mil of general levy to the department.
After looking at the lack of management knowledge on the parks and recreation commission in the spring of 2019, the township and city decided to dissolve the commission. In January 2020, the decision was formalised in January 2020 with the township taking over the department to provide services to both municipalities. The city would go on to develop its own parks plan before starting its own department.
1Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.63 square miles (9.40ย kmยฒ), of which, 3.61 square miles (9.35ย kmยฒ) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05ย kmยฒ) is water.
1Demographics As of the 2020 US Census, there were 8,091 people, 3,623 households, and 2,026 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,240 inhabitants per square mile (860/kmยฒ). The racial makeup of the city was 82.7% White, 13.1% African American, 1.1% Asian, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.5% of the population.
Of 3,623 households, 27.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.4% were married couples living together, 14% had a female householder with no husband present, and 44.1% were non-families. 37.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.98.
The city's population as of 2020 census data was 51.2% female and 48.8% male. The median age was 45.5 years.
1Grand Blanc has a population of over 8,091 people. Grand Blanc also forms part of the wider Genesee County which has a population of over 406,211 people. It is also a part of the larger Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint area. Grand Blanc is situated near Flint.
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