Cities, Towns, Villages and designated Post Offices:

• Amelith - 1900 Post Office; population 60 in 1910
• Arenac - 1870 Post Office
• Arn - east of Bay City on the M.C. Railroad; RFD Munger
• Auburn - Henry Baldwin, J. Curve, Johnston Kent and William Spicer were the first pioneers to this village; J. Southerland and Ira Swarts were the first store owners.
• Au Gres - 1870 Post Office
• Banks - in West Bay City, platted by Joseph Tromble' (Trombley) in 1851; received a Post Office in 1865; incorporated as a village 15 April 1871 -  situated in Bangor Township; Joseph Marchand, post master (1877); listed as a Post Office until 1890 after which time it became part of Bay City
• Bay City - County Seat
• Bayside - Bangor township on Saginaw Bay;  RFD Bay City
• Beaver
• Bedell - five miles from Bay City, 3 from Kawkawlin; RFD Auburn
• Bentley - Post Office 1890; Gibson Township on the M. (Michigan) C. (Central) Railroad
• Bertie - in 1910 the population was 12, P.O. Pinconning
• Brooks - on the Grand Trunk R.R.
• Colden - Post Office 1897; Williams Township, 14 miles west of Bay City
• Colfax - Post Office 1897-1918
• Crump - Garfield Township; west of Linwood on the M.C. Railroad
• Cummins - Post Office 1897 - 1902 in Fraser Township; RFD Linwood
• Dolsenville - north of Woodside Avenue in  Bay City
• Duel - Post Office in 1897; RFD Auburn
• Essexville - founded by Joseph Hudson (who married Fedilia D. Essex) and Ransom P. Essex; Post Office in 1872;  it was incorporated in February of 1883
• Fisherville - 13 miles west of Bay City on the M.C. Railroad
• Flajole - east of Fisherville on the M.C. Railroad
• Garfield - Post Office in 1900
• Glencoe - settled 1873; ;Post Office
• Glover - Post Office 1900; discontinued P.O. in 1918 - RFD Bentley
• Hamblen - Post Office in 1890 and 1902; RFD Auburn
• Kawkawlin -  in 1855 the settlement had two mills (Frederick A. Kaiser steam mill and the O.A. Ballou and Company water mill), 5 cottages, 2 log huts, and several Indian wigwams; a Post Office was established in 1868
• Laredo - Post Office 1893; RFD Auburn
• Lengsville - Post Office 1893; Fraser Township
• Linwood
• Loehne - 14 miles northwest of Bay City and 8 miles from Kawkawlin; Post Office in May, 1897
• Maxwell - Fraser Township, 15 miles north of Bay City, 4 miles from Pinconning; settled in 1870
• Michie - see Maxwell
• Monitor - Post Office in 1897; stop on the M.C. Railroad, 7 miles west of Bay City; P.O. Auburn
• Mount Forest - Post Office in 1890; 1905 population is 50; 18 miles northwest of Bay City and 12 miles from Standish
• Munger
• North Williams - last listed as a post office in 1893
• Pinconning - Chippewa name for the river near the settlement: O-pic-nic-con-ing, meaning potato place, as there were many wild potatoes growing there
• Portsmouth - listed as a Post Office in 1890
• Quanicassee
• Saganing
• Salzburg - named after Salzburg, Austria; settled in 1862; Post Office in 1875; Bangor Township 1 mile southwest of Bay City; lumber and salt manufacturing village
• Seidler
• Skinner - 1870 Post Office; Williams Township west of Bay City
• State Road - see Maxwell or Michie; also known as State Road Crossing
• Tebo - discontinued Post Office; RFD Pinconning
• Tobico - on the D.(Detroit) & M. (Mackinac[w]) Railroad; mail to Bay City
• Wenona - named after the mother of Hiawatha in Longfellow's poem; incorporated in May of 1866; became part of West Bay City in 1877 ; had the largest sawmill in the state - W.H. Sage & Co.
• White Feather - settled in 1872, 1877 Post Office;  station on the M.C. Railroad
• Willard
• Woodville

Organization of Bay County Townships
(courtesy of Don Dolsen):

Current Local Government Addresses