{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Karlin, Michigan | settlement_type = [[Unincorporated area|Unincorporated community]] | nickname = | motto = <!-- Images --> | image_skyline = | image_size = 275 | image_caption = | image_flag = | image_seal = <!-- Maps --> | pushpin_map = Michigan#USA | pushpin_label = Karlin | pushpin_label_position = left<!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none --> | pushpin_map_caption = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = <!-- Location --> | coordinates = {{Coord|44|34|42|N|85|47|00|W|region:US-MI_type:city_source:GNIS|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{Flagu|United States}} | subdivision_type1 = [[U.S. state|State]] | subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Michigan}} | subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in Michigan|County]] | subdivision_name2 = {{Flagicon image|Flag of Grand Traverse County, Michigan.svg}} [[Grand Traverse County, Michigan|Grand Traverse]] | subdivision_type3 = [[Civil township|Township]] | subdivision_name3 = [[Grant Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan|Grant]]
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'''Karlin''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ɑ:|ɹ|l|ɪ|n}} {{respell|KARR|linn}}) is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in the U.S. state of [[Michigan]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Geographic Names Information System |url=https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/d0d6bef3-5c3d-5ba2-895c-d7500cf63e48/summary |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=edits.nationalmap.gov}}</ref> Part of [[Grant Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan|Grant Township]], Karlin is within [[Grand Traverse County, Michigan|Grand Traverse County]], and is considered part of [[Northern Michigan]]. As an unincorporated community, Karlin has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own.
== History == An extension of the [[Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad]] northeast of [[Nessen City, Michigan|Nessen City]] was completed in 1890.<ref>{{Cite web |title=michiganrailroads.com - Evolution Map - Lower - 1890 |url=http://www.michiganrailroads.com/evolution-of-michigan-railroads/178-evolution-lower-peninsula/evolution-1890s/4389-evolution-map-lower-1890 |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=www.michiganrailroads.com |archive-date=November 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123223030/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/evolution-of-michigan-railroads/178-evolution-lower-peninsula/evolution-1890s/4389-evolution-map-lower-1890 |url-status=dead }}</ref> A station was opened {{convert|5|mi}} south of [[Interlochen, Michigan|Interlochen]] known as '''Horicon''', with a [[post office]] opening in 1897. Edward Wilson was the first [[postmaster]] at Horicon. The name of the community was changed in 1903 to Karlin, after [[Karlín]], [[Austria-Hungary]], from whence a number of local settlers originated.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Romig |first=Walter |title=Michigan Place Names: The History and Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |year=1986 |isbn=0-8143-1838-X |location=[[Detroit]] |pages=297}}</ref> The railroad line running through Karlin was removed in 1934.<ref>{{Cite web |title=michiganrailroads.com - Evolution Map - Lower - 1934 |url=http://www.michiganrailroads.com/evolution-of-michigan-railroads/182-evolution-lower-peninsula/evolution-1930s/4427-evolution-map-lower-1934 |access-date=2023-01-16 |website=www.michiganrailroads.com }}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places]]
== References == {{Reflist}}{{Grand Traverse County, Michigan}}
[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Michigan]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Grand Traverse County, Michigan]] [[Category:Populated places in the United States established in 1897]] [[Category:1897 establishments in Michigan]] [[Category:Traverse City metropolitan area]]
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