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Chums Corner is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Blair Township, Grand Traverse County, a few miles south of Traverse City.

Chums Corner takes its name from Deronda "Chum" Crandall, who with his wife Eva began operating a gas station and grocery store at the busy highway intersection around 1932; the crossing became known as Chum's Corners, and Crandall sold the business and retired in 1953.

The community sits where U.S. Route 31 turns at a 90-degree angle to head north and M-37 runs through the center of town.

Long before it had a name, the Chums Corner area was crossed by the Old Indian Trail, an Anishinaabe travel route between Lake Mitchell near Cadillac and Grand Traverse Bay.

Chums Corner was given official census-designated place boundaries for the first time in the 2010 census, when it had 946 residents.

The population of Chums Corner grew to 1,065 at the 2020 census, an increase of 12.6 percent over the decade.

Chums Corner is home to Turtle Creek Stadium, the ballpark of the Traverse City Pit Spitters of the Northwoods League.

Chasten Buttigieg, spouse of former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, was raised in Chums Corner and wrote about growing up there in his 2020 memoir I Have Something to Tell You.

As an unincorporated community, Chums Corner has no government of its own and uses Traverse City's ZIP code, 49685; its children attend Traverse City Area Public Schools.