Beal City, MI

Beal City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Isabella County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 332 residents. As an unincorporated community, Beal City has no legal autonomy of its own. The community is located in Nottawa Township within the Isabella Indian Reservation. In 2022, Beal City became the center of a national news story after a woman was charged with sending hateful and bullying messages to teenage students, including her own daughter, under a fake name and number. Kendra Licari sent the messages over a period of 15 months.

The short version is that Beal City carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Beal City: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Beal City was settled around 1880 by Mr. The land drains east toward the North Branch of the Chippewa River, which is part of the Saginaw River watershed. Beal City includes the land drains east toward the North Branch of the Chippewa River.