<P> There are two types of township in Michigan: general law township and charter . Charter township status was created by the Legislature in 1947 and grants additional powers and stream - lined administration in order to provide greater protection against annexation by a city . As of April 2001, there were 127 charter townships in Michigan . In general, charter townships have many of the same powers as a city but without the same level of obligations . For example, a charter township can have its own fire department, water and sewer department, police department, and so on--just like a city--but it is not required to have those things, whereas cities must provide those services . Charter townships can opt to use county - wide services instead, such as deputies from the county sheriff's office instead of a home - based force of ordinance officers . </P> <P> Michigan consists of two peninsulas that lie between 82 ° 30' to about 90 ° 30' west longitude, and are separated by the Straits of Mackinac . The 45th parallel north runs through the state--marked by highway signs and the Polar - Equator Trail--along a line including Mission Point Light near Traverse City, the towns of Gaylord and Alpena in the Lower Peninsula and Menominee in the Upper Peninsula . With the exception of two small areas that are drained by the Mississippi River by way of the Wisconsin River in the Upper Peninsula and by way of the Kankakee - Illinois River in the Lower Peninsula, Michigan is drained by the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence watershed and is the only state with the majority of its land thus drained . </P> <P> The Great Lakes that border Michigan from east to west are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior . It has more public golf courses, registered boats, and lighthouses than any other state . The state is bounded on the south by the states of Ohio and Indiana, sharing land and water boundaries with both . Michigan's western boundaries are almost entirely water boundaries, from south to north, with Illinois and Wisconsin in Lake Michigan; then a land boundary with Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, that is principally demarcated by the Menominee and Montreal Rivers; then water boundaries again, in Lake Superior, with Wisconsin and Minnesota to the west, capped around by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and east . </P> <P> The heavily forested Upper Peninsula is relatively mountainous in the west . The Porcupine Mountains, which are part of one of the oldest mountain chains in the world, rise to an altitude of almost 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level and form the watershed between the streams flowing into Lake Superior and Lake Michigan . The surface on either side of this range is rugged . The state's highest point, in the Huron Mountains northwest of Marquette, is Mount Arvon at 1,979 feet (603 m). The peninsula is as large as Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island combined but has fewer than 330,000 inhabitants . They are sometimes called "Yoopers" (from "U.P.'ers"), and their speech (the "Yooper dialect") has been heavily influenced by the numerous Scandinavian and Canadian immigrants who settled the area during the lumbering and mining boom of the late 19th century . </P>

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