The township is drained entirely by tributaries of the Grand River, including the Crockery Creek in the eastern portion.

19.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The Western Michigan region has been inhabited by the Ottawa Native Americans for centuries.

The first European explorers in the Ottawa County region were the French-Canadian explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette, who passed through the region in the mid 17th century.

European settlement in the area proceeded slowly until the mid 19th century, when zinc was discovered in Crockery Creek in 1858.

(Barnes, 1997) In 1872, the town of Nunica was officially incorporated, the name taken from the Ottawa word for zinc.