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Center Line is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan, surrounded categorically by the city of Warren. The population was 8,257 at the 2010 census.

Historically, the home that Center Line came to occupy was swamp and wilderness until the to the front nineteenth century. As estate became scarce, French, German, Belgian, and Irish immigrants began clearing the forests and draining the swamps. Center Line was known as Kunrod’s Corner during the mid-nineteenth century. The theory is that the French named it Center Line because it was the center of three Potowatomi trails from Fort Detroit to northern trading posts. The ‘center line’ was the trail used from Detroit to Utica. The community conventional its initial Begin when Catholics fixed to construct a church appropriately that they would not have to mosey to St. Mary’s in Detroit for Sunday Mass. This church (St. Clement’s) was customary in 1854 and attracted more Catholic settlers into the area. In 1863, the first general hoard was build up by Joeseph Buechel. On July 19, 1878, Hieronymous Engelmann was the first postmaster, and he was succeeded in 1885 by Sophia Buechel. The “Centre Line” post office closed on July 31, 1906, and the read out was restored to Center Line thereafter. In this era, street car tracks aligned Detroit to Center Line along Van Dyke Road, and Ten Mile Road was the final stop of the street car. The village was incorporated in 1925 in the center of Warren Township, which is now the City of Warren, and was incorporated as a city in 1936.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.74 square miles (4.51 km), all land.