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Cassopolis (/ˌkəˈsɒpəlɪs/ kə-SAH-pə-liss) is a village in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Cass County. It is located mostly in LaGrange Township with a small portion extending east into Penn Township. The village and county are named after statesman Lewis Cass, a New Hampshire native and a prominent U.S. senator from Michigan prior to the American Civil War.

Diamond Lake, one of the 100 largest inland lakes in Michigan, is located in Cassopolis.

Cassopolis is part of the South Bend–Mishawaka, IN-MI, Metropolitan Statistical Area sometimes referred to as Michiana. The population was 1,774 at the 2010 census. Cassopolis was platted by European Americans in 1831. It had already been designated the county seat by that point. It was incorporated as a village in 1863. The county developed farming and some industry.

Cassopolis was a transit point on the Underground Railroad, by which sympathizers aided refugee slaves from the South to gain freedom in the North and in Canada. Some refugees continued through Michigan to settle in Canada in order to avoid risk under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which increased incentives for capture. However the 1850s also saw the settlement of many African-Americans and people of mixed African-American and Sapponi and Pumenkey ancestry in Cass County.

In the 1960s, a group of African Americans connected to the Nation of Islam acquired some 1,000 acres of farmland in the area. Work on this acquisition was overseen by a man who had graduated from Cassopolis High.

Cassopolis village overview:
Name:	Cassopolis village
LSAD Code:	47
LSAD Description:	village (suffix)
State:	Michigan
County:	Cass County
Elevation:	889 ft (271 m)
Total Area:	2.23 sq mi (5.79 km²)
Land Area:	2.01 sq mi (5.21 km²)
Water Area:	0.22 sq mi (0.58 km²)
Total Population:	1,712
Population Density:	851.32/sq mi (328.70/km²)
Area code:	269
FIPS code:	2613900
GNISfeature ID:	0622860

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Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.25 square miles (5.83 km), of which 2.00 square miles (5.18 km) is land and 0.25 square miles (0.65 km) is water. Cassopolis is the town associated with Diamond Lake, the largest lake in southwestern Michigan.