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Ortonville is a village in north Oakland County, Michigan, approximately 41 miles north of Downtown Detroit on the northern edge of Metro Detroit, with a population of 1,291 as of 2021. Founded in 1848 by Amos Orton, who built a dam across Kearsley Creek to power a gristmill, the village was platted in 1866 and incorporated in 1902, and is located roughly halfway between Pontiac and Flint. The village covers 0.98 square miles and serves as a rural community within Brandon Township, though some adjacent development extends into Groveland Township in Oakland County and Hadley Township in Lapeer County. Ortonville's primary public schools operate through the Brandon School District, with Brandon High School's athletic teams competing in the Flint Metro League. The surrounding region includes Goodrich to the north, Oxford to the east, Clarkston to the south, and Holly to the west, with the village maintaining a predominantly white demographic composition of approximately 95.5% as of the 2010 census. Southfield is an inner-ring suburb of Detroit located approximately 15 miles northwest of downtown Detroit in Oakland County, Michigan, with a population of 76,618 according to the 2020 census. Originally surveyed in 1817 by Michigan territorial governor Lewis Cass and settled beginning in 1823, the area was organized as Ossewa Township in 1830 before being renamed Southfield Township 17 days later, and finally incorporated as a city on April 28, 1958. The city is home to Lawrence Technological University and serves as a major business hub, featuring the Southfield City Centre edge city with the tallest building in Detroit's suburbs, along with the former Northland Center shopping mall district. Southfield is recognized as a historic center of mid-century modern architecture in Michigan, with numerous examples throughout the city, and its Civic Center complex - developed starting in 1964 - includes City Hall, a police headquarters, sports arena, library, and recreation facilities. The autonomous city of Lathrup Village exists as an enclave completely surrounded by Southfield. Clarkston, officially the City of the Village of Clarkston, is a northern suburb of Detroit located approximately 34 miles northwest of downtown in Oakland County, Michigan, and is the smallest city by land area in the state at 0.44 square miles. Founded in 1830 when squatter Linux Jacox built the first house, the community was named Clarkston in 1842 by the Clark brothers who platted the village, incorporated as a village in 1884, and became a city in 1992. The Clarkston Village Historic District was designated a Michigan State Historic Site on January 16, 1976 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1979. With a 2020 population of 928 residents, Clarkston is surrounded by Independence Township but operates as an independent municipality with a population density of approximately 2,000 inhabitants per square mile.