Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Spring Lake, MI

Spring Lake is a village in Ottawa County, settled in 1837 when Captain Benjamin Hopkins bought land and built a mill, and the settlement became known as "Hopkins Mill."

In 1849 Thomas W. White and S.C. Hopkins platted the village as "Mill Point," and a post office opened under that name in May 1851.

The post office was renamed "Spring Lake" in May 1867 — also the name of the local station on the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway — and the Village of Spring Lake was incorporated in 1869.

Spring Lake boomed with the lumber era: its population jumped from just 179 in 1860 to 1,156 in 1870, then fell back to 696 by 1900 after the timber was cut.

The village sits within Spring Lake Township on the shore of its namesake lake, a 1,097-acre lake about four miles long that drains into the Grand River near its mouth on Lake Michigan.

Highway M-104 crosses the only bridge over Spring Lake, linking the village with Ferrysburg to the west.

Water makes up about a third of the village — 0.66 of its 1.92 square miles — and Spring Lake had 2,497 residents and 1,173 households in the 2020 census.

Spring Lake leans older and retirement-friendly: the median resident age was 50.2 years in 2020, and 27.9% of residents were 65 or older.

The village shares ZIP code 49456 with Spring Lake Township and most of neighboring Ferrysburg.

Local students attend Spring Lake Public Schools, including Spring Lake High School.