Drayton Plains is an unincorporated community in Oakland County

Oakland County, Michigan

-Demographics:As of the 2010 Census, there were 1,202,362 people, 471,115 households, and 315,175 families residing in the county. The population density as of the 2000 census was 1,369 people per square mile . There were 492,006 housing units at an average density of 564 per square mile...

, Michigan

Michigan

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, United States

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. It was first settled in 1823. A dam and gristmill was built in 1837 and the Drayton Plains Hotel was built in 1839. It was platted in 1860, but never incorporated as a municipality and its identity has been largely subsumed within that of Waterford Charter Township

Waterford Township, Michigan

Waterford Charter Township is a charter township in north Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township had a population of 71,707.-History:...

. It is located on Dixie Highway (U.S. Highway 24) around the west end of Loon Lake at 42°41'03" N, 83°22'38" W.

Brookfield Academy, originally founded as the Laurel Montessori School in 1964 in Drayton Plains, was the first Montessori school in Michigan. An old fish hatchery is now the Drayton Plains Nature Center.

Drayton Plains was informally referred to as a village and maintained its own identity and post office until the early 1990s when the post office was closed and functions transferred to the Waterford Post Office. The current ZIP code

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for the community is 48330.

External links

• An Account of Oakland County edited by Lillian Drake Avery. Dayton, Ohio: National Historical Association, Inc., 1925?.
• Photograph of the Drayton Plains railroad station
• Drayton Plains Nature Center