Oakley, MI

Oakley is a village in Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 299 residents. The village is within Brady Township, although about half of the village would lie within Chesaning Township on the east, if the boundary line had not been adjusted. Originally the area was called Mickleville. The short version is that Oakley carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Oakley: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Philip Mickle, who owned a tavern there in 1842, became the first postmaster of Mickleville on March 12, 1856.