Editing Overisel Township, Michigan (section)

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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name            = Overisel Township, Michigan
|settlement_type          = [[Township (United States)|Township]]
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|image_caption            = Overisel Township in 2023
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||pushpin_map             = Michigan
|pushpin_label            = Overisel Township
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|pushpin_map_caption      = Location within the state of Michigan
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|subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
|subdivision_name         = United States
|subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
|subdivision_name1        = [[Michigan]]
|subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in Michigan|County]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[Allegan County, Michigan|Allegan]]

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|unit_pref                = Imperial
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|area_total_km2           = 92.5
|area_land_km2            = 92.3
|area_water_km2           = 0.2
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|population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
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|population_total         = 3113
|population_density_km2   = 33.94
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|timezone                 = [[North American Eastern Time Zone|Eastern (EST)]]
|utc_offset               = -5
|timezone_DST             = EDT
|utc_offset_DST           = -4
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|elevation_m              = 201
|elevation_ft             = 659
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|blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
|blank_info               = 26-61820<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref>
|blank1_name              = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
|blank1_info              = 1626872<ref>{{gnis|1626872}}</ref>
|website                  = {{URL|www.overiseltownship.org}}
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'''Overisel Township''' is a [[civil township]] of [[Allegan County, Michigan|Allegan County]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Michigan]]. The population was 3,113 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/0600000US2600561820| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212142418/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/0600000US2600561820| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Overisel township, Allegan County, Michigan| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=June 7, 2013}}</ref>

Overisel was named after the Dutch province of [[Overijssel]].<ref name="Romig">{{cite book | last = Romig | first = Walter | year = 1986 | title = Michigan Place Names | orig-year= 1973 | publisher = Wayne State University Press | location = Detroit, Michigan | isbn = 0-8143-1838-X}}</ref>  Overisel is the birthplace of mathematician [[George David Birkhoff]], best known for what is now called the [[ergodic theory#Ergodic theorems|ergodic theorem]].