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Ithaca is a city and the county seat of Gratiot County, Michigan, located very near the geographical center of the state's Lower Peninsula.

The city sits at the junction of four townships — Emerson, Arcada, Newark and North Star — but is administered independently as a council-manager government.

Ithaca was founded in 1855; John Jeffery platted the settlement in 1856 under the name Gratiot Center, and the site was named the county seat that same year.

On April 13, 1857, the settlement was renamed Ithaca, after Ithaca, New York; it incorporated as a village in 1869 and became a city in 1961.

Ithaca had 2,853 residents in the 2020 census, living in 1,207 households.

The city's population peaked at 3,098 in the 2000 census and has eased down slightly in each census since.

Ithaca has four parks within the city limits: Woodland Park, Atkinson Park, McNabb Park and the Ithaca Dog Park, which was built in the summer of 2012.

Woodland Park features a large sledding hill and an ice skating rink, while McNabb Park hosts events including the Gratiot Agricultural Society Expo and AYSO soccer games.

Both the Gratiot County Courthouse and the Ithaca Downtown Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ithaca's unified public school system operates out of three buildings, and its teams are the Yellowjackets — the mascot is 'Jack', a yellow jacket.