Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA

Kalamazoo is a community in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, set within the lake plains, river valleys and glacial terrain of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. Kalamazoo combines a river-valley setting with a long legacy of paper manufacturing, higher education and medical innovation. Timber, farming, railroads and industrialization guided nineteenth- and twentieth-century growth, and later roads broadened the community’s ties to the region. Manufacturing, education, health care, agriculture and regional services remain central. Local traditions and access to the outdoors add another dimension to life in Kalamazoo.