Beaver township Zone 1 Area

Loehne was little more than a crossroads with a general store when Edwin Loehne became the first postmaster in 1894—these days, Zone 1 sprawls across nearly 23,000 acres of rural land about 10 miles northwest of Bay City, where the median home runs around $222K and the average lot stretches to almost 25 acres. The Kawkawlin River cuts across the northeast, and you're roughly four miles from a grocery store and under four miles from the Manistee National Forest-White Cloud Unit if you feel like escaping land that's largely devoted to agriculture. Three-quarters of residents have stayed put for at least five years, which says something about the kind of stability that comes with roots and acreage; the township itself traces back to March 1867, when Levi Willard, Josiah Wellington, and Oscar Kellogg held the first meeting. It's a place where most people own their homes outright—the kind of space where a quarter-century lot feels unremarkable, not luxurious.