Wedgewood, MI

Wedgewood is a small census-designated place inside Cherry Grove Township in Wexford County. Its boundaries became official for the 2010 census, making Wedgewood a relatively new formal map unit. The community's school connection points northeast toward Cadillac: the CDP is served entirely by Cadillac Area Public Schools, whose current lineup includes Cadillac High and Innovation High, Mackinaw Trail Middle, and Forest View, Franklin, and Lincoln elementary schools. That gives Wedgewood a direct institutional connection to the county's main city.

At the township scale, Wedgewood sits inside Cherry Grove's road network. The Wexford County Road Commission maintains an Act 51 map for Cherry Grove, while the Wexford Joint Planning Commission handles planning for Cherry Grove from its Cadillac office. Wedgewood's local map is a small census place inside a larger township system, with Cadillac supplying the schools and county and joint-planning offices handling road and planning work. The scoop is in that relationship: the place has its own census boundary, but its everyday institutions point outward.