Map of Alma city, Michigan

Alma is the largest city in Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,488 at the 2020 census. It was incorporated as the Village of Alma in 1872 and became a city in 1905.

Alma hosts the annual Highland Festival on Memorial Day weekend. It brings members of Scottish clans and interested onlookers together for a weekend of Highland dancing, bagpipes, kilts, and camaraderie.

Alma College, a small liberal-arts institution of approximately 1,300 students, is located in town and focuses on multidisciplinary learning in a residential setting.

Alma is the birthplace of both the modernist architect Ralph Rapson and writer/composer/lyricist Dan Goggin (Nunsense).

Alma was the home of Leonard Refineries which sold gasoline and other petroleum products throughout the lower peninsula of Michigan from its founding in 1936 until about 1966.

Alma city overview:
Name:	Alma city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Michigan
County:	Gratiot County
Elevation:	735 ft (224 m)
Total Area:	6.05 sq mi (15.67 km²)
Land Area:	5.89 sq mi (15.26 km²)
Water Area:	0.16 sq mi (0.41 km²)
Total Population:	9,488
Population Density:	1,610.32/sq mi (621.75/km²)
ZIP code:	48801-48802
Area code:	989
FIPS code:	2601540
GNISfeature ID:	0620002

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History

Alma was founded in 1853 by Ralph Ely. Perhaps first known for the Alma Springs Sanitarium, built and promoted in the 1880s by millionaire lumberman and capitalist Ammi W. Wright, it achieved its greatest prominence nationally in the 1910s and 1920s as home of the Republic Motor Truck Company, briefly the largest exclusive truck manufacturer in the world. At one point the maker of one out of every nine trucks on the roads in the United States. It was one of the major suppliers of “Liberty trucks” used by American troops during World War I. In 1953 Alma became the first place that high-octane gas, 96 octane, was produced.

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Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.09 square miles (15.77 km), of which 5.93 square miles (15.36 km) is land and 0.16 square miles (0.41 km) is water.