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Hamtramck, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan
Population (2000): 22976
Housing Units (2000): 8894
Land area (2000): 2.107794 sq. miles (5.459160 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.107794 sq. miles (5.459160 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36280
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.397812 N, 83.057335 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48212
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Hamtramck, MI
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Usage examples of "hamtramck".

The Hamtramck police were very polite and let us look at their records, but most of them were not there during the time we were interested in, and they could not afford to reopen a case so old.

Farther north, the blue street signs that mark Hamtramck proper begin and the housing gets thicker and more modern.

What's the procedure in Hamtramck when no one comes forward to claim the deceased's personal effects?

After a while he sat back and gave me an address on Denton in Hamtramck and an unlisted telephone number.

You were looking for the cross when you found that man dead in Hamtramck, weren't you?

At the time it was written, Mayor Coleman Young, the nearest thing to a train wreck ever to happen to the City of Detroit, was engaged in a determined campaign to hound residents out of the historic Poletown section of suburban Hamtramck in order to clear the way for the construction of a new Cadillac plant by General Motors.

This is Martha Evancek's Hamtramck, some vestiges of which are still visible through the windows of Walker's little house on the suburb's western edge.

I say this because sometimes, when he was tired or distracted, he would start speaking pure, Midwest Standard English, the language of Walter Cronkite, until he caught himself and went back to his Hamtramck accent.

Adam's Hamtramck accent was still there, but he had toned it way down.

Adam almost slipped back into his Hamtramck accent, caught himself, and continued on in English.

Stanley and Maya had lived in Hamtramck, and they had paid off their mortgage on a small two-bedroom house in this largely Polish community.

After Stanley retired, he and Maya trucked their old furniture from Hamtramck down to the new house and moved in.

Maya, who had worked part-time, off and on, at a dry-cleaning shop a block away from their house in Hamtramck, also drew Social Security each month, and both of them were on Medicare.

Stanley had appropriated these cyanide tablets from the paint shop at Ford because he found them useful for poisoning vicious dogs in Hamtramck, and later in Florida.

For months Maya had tried to talk to him about moving back to Hamtramck, and every time she brought it up he had refused to discuss it.