Eagle, MI

Eagle is a village in southwest Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 122 residents. The village is within Eagle Township in the southwest corner of the county. Eagle is near Interstate 96 about 15 miles northwest of Lansing. In Eagle, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Eagle, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. Eagle is the third-least populated village in the state after Forestville and Turner. The current site of the village was formed in 1872 when George W. McCrumb donated land for a rail depot and Methodist Church, before which there had been a village of the same name a half mile west, that dated back to 1834.