Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Ferrysburg, MI

Ferrysburg is a small city in Ottawa County on Michigan's Lake Michigan coast, nicknamed 'The Ottawa Peninsula.'

Ferrysburg sits on the north side of the Grand River at its mouth on Lake Michigan, across the river from Grand Haven and across Spring Lake from the village of Spring Lake.

Settlement began in the 1830s with William Montague Ferry and his family, and the community was platted in 1857.

Ferrysburg was a village within Spring Lake Township until it incorporated as a city in 1963, and it still shares a police department with the township.

Ferrysburg had 2,952 residents at the 2020 census, living in 1,353 households.

Ferrysburg is an older community — the 2020 census put its median age at 52.1 years, with nearly 29 percent of residents aged 65 or older.

US 31 runs north-south through Ferrysburg, and state highway M-104 has its western terminus in the city.

Ferrysburg ran its own one-school K-8 district from 1857 until it fully merged into Grand Haven Area Public Schools in 1963.

Although Ferrysburg has its own ZIP code, 49409, it is mostly a post-office-box code, and most addresses in the city use Spring Lake's 49456 ZIP code.