Armada

History

The first record of land purchased in the area that became Armada Township was made by John Proctor in 1825. Twenty-three more families had bought land in the rural area by 1832. Until that year the area was part of Ray Township. At that time a meeting was called to organize a separate township. The vote won by two and Armada Township was founded. When the discussion began to choose the name for the new township, legend says that "Hosea Northrup jumped up and shouted the name 'Armada'". The name was accepted. Several communities were founded within the township, which was originally developed for agriculture. What became the village of Armada was founded in 1833 by Elijah Burke; it was originally called "Burke's Corners" after him. The village began to prosper when residents improved the old Indian trail for use as a roadway in the early 1830s. The road soon became part of the immigrant and migrant road network between Romeo and Port Huron, Michigan. Today this is known as Armada Ridge Road. Burke's Corners was briefly renamed "Honeoye", for the New York hometown of several newly arrived migrants. When the village was finally incorporated in the late 1860s, it was officially named "Armada", the same as the township. By then the village had about 800 inhabitants. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the village had a stagecoach stop, an opera house, a theater, seven grocery stores, three hotels, three hardware stores, a lumberyard, a grain mill, two implement dealers, a bakery, five doctors, several blacksmiths shops, and a drug store. The first school in Armada was a one-room schoolhouse located at Selleck's Corners. Soon schools were built all around the township. These one-room schools were consolidated during the 1940s. At that time,…

Geography

Armada is in northern Macomb County, north of Mount Clemens, the county seat; southwest of Port Huron, and north-northeast of downtown Detroit. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which , or 0.27%, are water. The East Branch of Coon Creek passes through the center of the village, part of the Clinton River watershed flowing to Lake St. Clair.

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Most-observed species

• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  8,518
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  8,160
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  8,106
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  7,319
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  7,079
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  6,989
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  6,853
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  6,319

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