Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Oakley, MI

Oakley is a village in Saginaw County in Michigan's Saginaw Valley, located within Brady Township — although about half the village would lie in Chesaning Township if the boundary line had not been adjusted.

The area was originally called Mickleville after Philip Mickle, who kept a tavern there from 1842 and became its first postmaster on March 12, 1856.

Andrew Huggins platted and recorded the village of Oakley in 1868, naming it for Judge Oakley of Dutchess County, New York, a relative of one of its citizens, and Oakley was incorporated as a village in 1887.

By 1880 Oakley had 350 people, one school, three dry-goods stores, two grocers, two drug stores, two hardware stores and a factory that employed 40 people.

The village of Oakley had a population of 299 at the 2020 census.

At the previous census in 2010, Oakley's 290 residents lived in 116 households.

Oakley became nationally notorious in the 2010s for its tiny police department's reserve-officer program, which by 2014 had credentialed about 100 reserve officers for a village of roughly 300 people; the village disbanded the department in September 2014 after its liability insurer cancelled coverage over the use of untrained officers.

Oakley covers 1.03 square miles, almost all of it land, in the farmland southwest of the city of Saginaw.

Oakley's own ZIP Code is 48649.