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For those of you who are wondering why you would name a town HELL...hell, watch what you say!

Hell, Michigan is an unincorporated community in Livingston County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is in Putnam Township near the border with Washtenaw County about 20 miles northwest of Ann Arbor at 42°26′05″N, 83°59′06″W. Hell has a population of 266 and the ZIP Code is 48169.

History
For several hundred years, the low, swampy area was occupied mostly by the Potawatomi tribe. Later, in the early 19th century, it was the most unpleasant part of a trail between Lansing and Dexter (which at the time contained a major farmers market) and a point on the route taken by traders portaging between the Huron River and the Grand River.

In the late 1830s, George Reeves, a New York farmer, started several businesses in the area — a general store, and a mill, and a distillery — which became the core of a minor population center; by the 1840s, enough people had immigrated to make a 70-person school viable (assuming 19th century birth rates, this pegs the population somewhere close to its current level).

In 1841, as one story goes, Reeves was sitting one day with a group of friends in the general store when someone asked him, "What are you going to name your town?" He hastily replied, "I don't care, call it Hell, if you want to." The name stuck from that moment on. All efforts to claim Reevesville or Reeves Mill as official names failed and Hell it remains to this day. It is said George Reeves regretted his levity to his dying day.

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