Wyoming

History

Native Americans of the Hopewellian culture inhabited the region from ca. 400 B.C. to A.D. 400. Classified as the Goodall focus, a Hopewell sub-grouping, they created a series of structures known as Norton Mound group with the mounds probably being constructed in the first century AD. Odawa tribes were established in the area near present-day Wyoming, with the village of the ogema Black Skin, natively known as Muck-i-ta-oska or Mukatasha, ranging from the southwest present-day Grand Rapids to the Grand River across from the Norton Mound group, with the mouth of the Black Skin Creek leading into the Grand River across from the mounds. Where what is now Grandville, Michigan, a prairie existed west of Wyoming where up to ten native families under the ogema As-to-quet, who were friendly with early settlers in the area, held planting grounds. In the late 1700s, French fur traders traversed the Grand River Valley. Lucius Lyon, a Yankee Protestant, was contracted by the federal government to survey the Grand River Valley in the fall of 1830 and in the first quarter of 1831, the federal survey of the Northwest Territory reached the Grand River, setting the boundaries for Kent County, named after prominent New York jurist James Kent. Lyon would also survey "Township Nº VI West, Range Nº XII North", which would become Wyoming. The area that is now the city of Wyoming was the second location settled by European-Americans in Kent County. Robert Howlett, Luther Lincoln, Amos Gordon and Stephen Tucker were some of the first settlers in the fall of 1832. Lincoln built the first log shanty in the area in the fall of 1832 and began to prepare his plot with livestock and crops before the winter. A framed house was constructed by Rogers in the spring of 1836 and was expected to accept…

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (0.88%) is water. The city is situated southwest of Grand Rapids and south of the Grand River. Buck Creek spans the city and created a valley of dark loam soil that was used historically for farming, while elevated land above the valley is dense clay soil. }}

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  36,129
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  32,626
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  30,173
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  29,429
• Downy Woodpecker

  Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  27,337
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  26,059
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  26,058
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  24,402

Largest nearby schools

• East Kentwood High School
  High · GRAND RAPIDS · 2,010 students · 19.1:1 ratio
• Grandville High School
  High · GRANDVILLE · 1,767 students · 17.7:1 ratio
• Byron Center High School
  High · BYRON CENTER · 1,339 students · 21.6:1 ratio
• Wyoming High School
  High · WYOMING · 1,284 students · 22.1:1 ratio
• PrepNet Virtual Academy
  Other · GRAND RAPIDS · 1,220 students · 14.7:1 ratio
• Northern High School
  High · GRAND RAPIDS · 1,134 students · 19.2:1 ratio
• Central High School
  High · GRAND RAPIDS · 1,053 students · 21.1:1 ratio
• Union High School
  High · GRAND RAPIDS · 922 students · 20.5:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 3.3 — 2015-06-30
  5 km NNE of Burlington, Michigan
• M 4.2 — 2015-05-02
  5 km S of Galesburg, Michigan