35 Facts About Saginaw

Saginaw is a city in the U S state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County.

Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of Greater Tri-Cities region of Central Michigan.

Saginaw was a thriving lumber town in the 19th century and an important industrial city and manufacturing center throughout much of the 20th century.

Name Saginaw is widely believed to mean "where the Sauk were" in Ojibwe, from Sace-nong or Sak-e-nong, due to the belief that the Sauk once lived there.

Saginaw was the site of numerous sawmills and served as a port for Great Lakes vessels.

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In 1819, Lewis Cass, in the Treaty of Saginaw, negotiated the prerogative for the United States to own and settle the area with the leaders of the Ojibwe.

Saginaw was the location of the annual government payment to the Ojibwe and Ottawa of the area, starting in the 1830s.

Main cause for the founding and subsequent development of Saginaw was the large demand for lumber as the United States expanded westward.

The consolidation of Saginaw became effective with the election of officers on March 12, 1890.

Saginaw Steering Gear's Plant1 began wartime production in 1941, concentrating on ball screws that would eventually be used in the wing flaps of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

The unintended consequence of this choice was that Saginaw's population stopped growing, new housing development focused on the suburban townships, and businesses eventually followed.

Manufacturing in Saginaw declined in the latter half of the 20th century, leading to high unemployment in the city.

Unemployment in Saginaw peaked in July 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, standing at 23.

Efforts to reduce blight in Saginaw increased greatly in 2013, with the United States Department of the Treasury approving a grant to demolish vacant and abandoned properties via the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.

The city sits in the middle of the Saginaw Bay watershed, the largest in the state of Michigan.

Saginaw has a humid continental climate influenced by its inland position not on the shore of one of the Great Lakes of Michigan.

Saginaw is classified as a Home Rule City under the Michigan Home Rule Cities Act adopting its own City Charter giving its city a council-manager form of government.

Pursuant to the City Charter, Saginaw is governed by a nine-member elected at-large Council.

Saginaw is served by Delta College and Saginaw Valley State University, which are located in nearby University Center, Michigan.

City of Saginaw is served by the Saginaw Public School District, known as SPSD.

City of Saginaw gets its electricity and natural gas from Consumers Energy.

Currently, the City of Saginaw jointly owns with the City of Midland the Saginaw-Midland Municipal Water Supply Corporation.

Saginaw is served primarily by two airports: MBS International Airport, located in nearby Freeland, and Bishop International Airport, located in Flint.

Saginaw is served by three smaller airports: Harry W Browne Airport in adjacent Buena Vista Township, James Clements Municipal Airport in Bay City, and Jack Barstow Municipal Airport in Midland.

Downtown Saginaw has undergone a resurgence with locally owned restaurants and coffee shops dotting the area.

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The downtown Saginaw area contains a number of office buildings from the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Saginaw area is home to two professional sports teams and one NCAA Division-II school that has various sports programs.

The Saginaw Spirit is an Ontario Hockey League team that became nationally known when television personality Stephen Colbert promoted the team on his show, The Colbert Report.

The Saginaw Sting was an indoor football team that formed in 2007 to play in Saginaw beginning in the 2008 season and is currently on hiatus.

Castle Museum of Saginaw County History is an important and prominent museum in downtown Saginaw.

Saginaw is home to a Japanese Cultural Center, Tea House and Garden, as a result of its 52-year Sister-City relationship with Tokushima, Japan.

Saginaw is part of Nielsen's Flint-Saginaw-Bay City-Midland Designated Market Area which is the 66th largest market in the United States for Television Viewers.

Saginaw is the home of CBS affiliate WNEM which maintains its studios and offices inside the city though its license is for Bay City, MI.

Those include family owned and Saginaw-headquartered MacDonald Broadcasting, and corporate broadcasters Alpha Media and Cumulus Media.

Many locations in the City of Saginaw receive stations from Bay City, Midland, Flint, and Lansing.