Healthy Home Assessments in Tyrone Township

Tyrone Township, house by house

Tyrone Township, first settled in 1834, is a rural community in the northeast corner of Livingston County with rolling hills, lakes, golf courses and open spaces. A local distinction: Home to Coyote Preserve Golf Club, an 18-hole Arnold Palmer Signature course designed by Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay that opened in 2001. About 3,416 households hold some 10,320 residents. The first and only post office in Tyrone carried the town's name and opened at the Grove House around 1852-53 with Jairah Hillman as postmaster. It then moved from house to house with each new appointee, sitting at Amilo Gardner's place on section 28 from 1855-56 onward.

Homes and households

Detached single-family homes are 84.4% of the stock; owner-occupancy is 90.3% of occupied units, on 2023 five-year Census estimates. Bachelor's attainment among adults is 36.0%. The building record here reaches back to 1887, and an older envelope moves air and holds moisture on its own terms. Also on the ground: Coyote Preserve Golf Club, 9218 Preserve Drive, an 18-hole Arnold Palmer Signature course designed by Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay, opened in 2001 and playing to 6,912 yards from the back tees over hilly terrain with heavy elevation change.

Near Runyan Lake the humidity picture shifts, which puts basement moisture, condensation and drainage first. Because owner-occupancy reaches 90.3%, most visits cover a whole building rather than one unit of a shared system.

Named places in Tyrone Township:

• Historic Tyrone Town House. The 1887 town house is a registered historic building with the State of Michigan and is preserved by the Tyrone Township Historical Society.
• Runyan Lake. Private all-sports lake of about 180 acres one mile south of Fenton in Tyrone Township.
• Lake Shannon. Private all-sports lake covering about 262 acres in Tyrone Township with no public access.
• Tyrone Hills Golf Club. Public 18-hole par 72 course on Old US-23 that opened in 1961 and measures 6,363 yards.
• Coyote Preserve Golf Club. Public 18-hole Arnold Palmer Signature course designed by Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay that opened in 2001 at 9218 Preserve Drive.

Corners of the map

Tyrone Township also contains one named district, Hallers Corners. Hallers Corners: Unincorporated community in the township listed in the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System. Mail runs through the 48430 ZIP code. Local boosters insisted The Bluff was the highest point in Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The 1880 county historian checked it against Osceola County and the town of Reading in Hillsdale County and said it was not.