Goodells, Michigan

Wales Township is a civil township of St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,986 at the 2000 census.CommunitiesThere are a few unincorporated communities with the Township: Goodells is in the northern part of the township at Goodells and Morris Roads. Much of the land in the area had been purchased by speculators, and as late as 1840 there were only three resident land owners. The community was founded in 1866 when the Grand Trunk Railroad built a line and opened a station. A post office opened in November 1870. The Goodells ZIP code, 48027, serves all of Wales Township. Lambs is in the west central part of the township at Cove and Lambs Roads. This was a station on a branch of the Port Huron and Northwestern Railway in 1883. The settlement formed around the lumber and flour mills of J.A. Lamb. A post office operated from March 1884 until April 1942.Thornton, also spelled Thorton, is on the boundary with Kimball Township on Sparling Road between Emerson and Griswold Roads. Wales Center, also just Wales, is at the center of the township at Wales Center and Lambs Roads. The settlement took its name from the township and a post office that operated there for a time.GeographyAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 37.4sqmi, of which 37.3sqmi is land and 0.04sqmi (0.05%) is water.