[3] Flushing Township was rated the 63rd safest community in America with a population over 10,000 by SafeWise, a home security and safety brand, in 2017.

At a meeting at Ezekiel R. Ewing's house, Dover was proposed by Ebenezer French as the township's name.

However, since another Dover Township already existed in the state, the Michigan legislature chose Flushing.

[11] Thomas L. L. Brent was a prominent early settler coming before 1836 and purchased up to 70,000 acres (280 km2) of Michigan land.

[8] In the 1840, the "English Settlement" started to form in the Township's northwest area with settlers from England.

The bomber was on a routine navigational training flight from Minneapolis to its home base at Griffiss Field at Rome, New York when its engines failed.

The dead pilot, 1st Lieutenant Robert Davis Phelps[13] of Andover, New Hampshire, was found near the wreckage with his body wrapped within his parachute.

Phelps is credited with steering the crippled aircraft away from residential areas and preventing further loss of life.