Blair Township is the location of Turtle Creek Stadium, the home stadium for the Traverse City Pit Spitters, a collegiate summer baseball team.

[4] The township is named for Austin Blair, who served as Governor of Michigan during the American Civil War.

The Boardman River briefly flows through the northeast of the township.

As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 6,448 people, 2,295 households, and 1,684 families residing in the township.

18.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.