Parchment
Parchment is a city in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census recorded a population of 1,926. The name is derived from the parchment company that used to manufacture paper on the East bank of the Kalamazoo River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States of America
- Also known as: “Parchment, MI” and “Parchment, Michigan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parchment Innovation Center and Kalamazoo Transportation Center.
Parchment Innovation Center
School building
Parchment Innovation Center is an alternative public school located within the Parchment Public School District, Parchment, Michigan. This school enrolls students in grades sixth through twelfth from surrounding areas.
Kalamazoo Transportation Center
Railway station
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The Kalamazoo Transportation Center is an Intermodal train and bus station in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. It is the second-busiest Amtrak station in Michigan, after Ann Arbor. Kalamazoo Transportation Center is situated 2½ miles south of Parchment.
Northglade Montessori Magnet School
School
Northglade Montessori Magnet School is a public elementary magnet school for students grades K-5, operated by the Kalamazoo Public Schools, located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Northglade Montessori Magnet School is situated 1½ miles southwest of Parchment.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eastwood and Kalamazoo.
Eastwood
Neighborhood
Eastwood is an unincorporated community in Kalamazoo Charter Township, Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place for statistical purposes and does not have any legal status as an incorporated municipality. Eastwood is situated 2 miles southeast of Parchment.
Kalamazoo
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Kalamazoo is a city in West Central Michigan. The city is home to more than 198,200 people, with 355,000 in the metropolitan area, which includes neighboring Battle Creek.
Westwood
Neighborhood
Westwood is an unincorporated community in Kalamazoo Charter Township, Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place for statistical purposes and does not have any legal status as an incorporated municipality. Westwood is situated 3½ miles southwest of Parchment.
Parchment
- Categories: city in the United States, city, and locality
- Location: City of Parchment, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.3281° or 42° 19′ 41″ northLongitude
-85.56973° or 85° 34′ 11″ westPopulation
1,800Elevation
774 feet (236 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PZMOpen location code
86JP8CHJ+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 153697087OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Parchment” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بارتشمنت”
- Basque: “Parchment”
- Cebuano: “Parchment”
- Chechen: “Парчмент”
- Chinese: “Parchment”
- Chinese: “帕奇門特”
- Danish: “Parchment”
- Dutch: “Parchment”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بارتشمنت”
- French: “Parchment”
- Gilaki: “پارچمنت (ميشيگان)”
- Gilaki: “پارچمنت”
- Hungarian: “Parchment”
- Irish: “Parchment”
- Italian: “Parchment”
- Kazakh: “Парчмент”
- Kirghiz: “Парчмент”
- Ladin: “Parchment”
- Malagasy: “Parchment, Michigan”
- Malagasy: “Parchment”
- Mazanderani: “پارچمنت (میشیگان)”
- Mazanderani: “پارچمنت”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Parchment”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Parchment”
- Persian: “پارچمنت، میشیگان”
- Persian: “پارچمنت”
- Polish: “Parchment”
- Portuguese: “Parchment”
- Serbian: “Парчмент”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Parchment, Michigan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Parchment”
- South Azerbaijani: “پارچمنت، میشیقان”
- Spanish: “Parchment”
- Swedish: “Parchment, Michigan”
- Swedish: “Parchment”
- Tatar: “Парчмент”
- Ukrainian: “Парчмент”
- Uzbek: “Parchment”
- Volapük: “Parchment”
- Welsh: “Parchment, Michigan”
- Welsh: “Parchment”
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Notable Places Nearby
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