Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Bloomingdale, MI

Bloomingdale is a village in Van Buren County that sits within and serves as the seat of Bloomingdale Township, in the largely agricultural center of the county.

The village was founded in 1855, with Henry Killefer as the first settler on its site, and a post office was established in 1856.

Bloomingdale was platted on May 23, 1870, by William Killefer and Lucius B. Kendall, just as the railroad arrived - the first passenger train on the Kalamazoo and South Haven branch of the Michigan Central reached the village on July 4, 1870.

Bloomingdale was incorporated as a village in 1881.

In the 1930s oil was discovered within the village limits and Bloomingdale was tipped to become a rising city, but the wells played out and pumping has since ceased entirely.

The 2020 census counted 513 people in Bloomingdale, up from 454 in 2010, when the village had 172 households.

The village covers 1.17 square miles, of which 1.14 square miles is land.

Bloomingdale is the midpoint of the Kal-Haven Trail, the 33.5-mile rail trail between Kalamazoo and South Haven, and its restored depot - now the Bloomingdale Depot Museum - serves as a trail rest stop.

When the State of Michigan bought the Kal-Haven corridor in 1988, the purchase ceremony was held at the Bloomingdale Depot Museum precisely because the village sits at the trail's midway point.