Kent City, MI

Kent City sits in Tyrone Township about 20 miles north of Grand Rapids, in west Michigan's orchard country where peaches and apples are part of the surrounding agricultural landscape. Its strongest regional tie is Kent City Community Schools: the district headquarters and its elementary, middle, and high schools are in the village, while the district reaches into several Kent County townships and smaller areas of Muskegon and Ottawa counties. The Tyrone Township Branch of the Kent District Library adds another daily institution on Main Street, with roots going back to a library established in a drugstore in 1935. Kent City's footprint is small, but its schools, library, and fruit-growing surroundings connect it to a much wider patch of west Michigan.