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Flushing originated as a mill town in the mid-1830s on the Flint River, the largest river in Genesee County, was platted in 1840, incorporated as a village in 1877 and as a city in 1964.

The name Dover was originally chosen for the village, but it was already in use in Lenawee County, so Charles Seymour Sr., a former resident of Flushing, Long Island, named the community after that New York village instead.

Flushing is a city set within Flushing Charter Township but is administratively autonomous from it, and it is considered a suburb of Flint.

The 2020 census counted 8,411 people in Flushing, up slightly from 8,389 in 2010, living in 3,628 households.

The Flint River that flows through Flushing was known to Native Americans as Pewonigowink, meaning River of the Flint or River of the Fire Stone.

The railroad first reached Flushing in 1888 on the Toledo and Ann Arbor line, and the restored 1888 depot now houses the Flushing Area Museum and Cultural Center.

Flushing's Riverview Park hosts a summer Concerts in the Park series at its bandshell along the river.

On November 27, 2017, Flushing and its neighboring northern-loop municipalities began receiving water from the Karegnondi Water Authority pipeline.

Public education in Flushing is provided by Flushing Community Schools, and St. Robert Catholic School has served pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in the city since 1954.

The AT&T building in Flushing, completed by Michigan Bell in 1975 at a cost of $2.2 million, stands on the site of the former home of James Seymour, brother of the city's founder Charles Seymour.