Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Northville, MI

Northville is a small city spanning Wayne and Oakland counties, a western suburb about 27 miles northwest of Detroit and 17 miles northeast of Ann Arbor, independent of the neighboring Northville Township.

Northville was first settled in 1825, and John Miller built the first mill in Plymouth Township between 1825 and 1828 on the River Rouge, on the site where Mill Race Historical Village now stands.

Northville incorporated as a village on March 13, 1867, and as a city in 1955.

Mill Race Historical Village, an open-air museum of preserved historic buildings, opened in 1972 on the old gristmill site on land donated by the Ford Motor Company.

In 1944 Northville Downs opened as the first nighttime harness racing track in Michigan, on the former Wayne County Fairgrounds, where boxer Joe Louis had trained in 1939.

Northville had 6,119 residents at the 2020 census and about 2,620 households.

Northville is an affluent community: its median household income is about $145,530, its median home value is around $465,400, about 80 percent of homes are owner-occupied, and roughly 68 percent of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

The city's motto is "Historically Distinctive," reflecting its well-preserved Victorian-era downtown.

By the mid-1860s the village already had two flour mills, a sawmill, two foundries, five stores, and a hotel, and railroad service arrived in May 1871.