Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Saginaw, MI

Saginaw is the county seat of Saginaw County and sits on the Saginaw River in Michigan's Great Lakes Bay region, as part of the Tri-Cities area with Midland and Bay City.

Saginaw's first permanent non-Native settlement came in 1816, when Louis Campau established a trading post on the west bank of the Saginaw River, and a fort followed the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.

Saginaw was settled in 1819 and incorporated as a city in 1857.

Saginaw boomed in the 19th century as one of America's great lumber towns, with logs of white pine floated down the Saginaw River to its many sawmills for shipment across the Great Lakes.

The modern city of Saginaw was formed by the consolidation of the separate cities of East Saginaw and Saginaw City on the river's west side.

In the 20th century Saginaw became a major automobile and auto-parts manufacturing center led by General Motors, but Rust Belt decline later shrank the city.

Saginaw had a population of 44,202 in the 2020 census, down sharply from 51,508 in 2010.

Saginaw had 18,107 households in the 2020 census, and the median value of an owner-occupied home there is only about $60,000.

Saginaw's Castle Museum of Saginaw County History occupies the castle-like former U.S. post office built in 1898 in French Renaissance Revival style, and it holds more than 100,000 historical objects.

Saginaw's Japanese Cultural Center features a three-acre friendship garden and the Awa-Saginaw An tea house, built in 1985–86 by master Japanese carpenters using traditional joinery without nails, honoring Saginaw's sister-city bond with Tokushima, Japan, that began in 1961.