Greilickville ( GRY-lik-vil) is an unincorporated community in Leelanau County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) used for statistical purposes and has no legal standing as a municipality. The population was 1,530 at the 2010 census, up from 1,415 at the 2000 census.

The Place is upon Grand Traverse Bay just north of Traverse City and is a share of that city’s urban area. The Traverse City Harbor is located in Greilickville. The CDP includes a larger area extending additional inland than the concurrence concentrated on the waterfront.

The Place has had swap names in the past first instinctive settled, and was first known as “Norristown” and then “Norrisville“, after Seth and Albert Norris who opened a gristmill there re 1853. In the mid-1850s, Bohemian native Godfrey Greilick and his sons built a small, water-powered sawmill. Greilick’s original name was Gottlieb Greulich and he escaped furtively from his hometown of Chrastava in 1842, because he owed a lot of money. The Greilick brothers built a steam-powered mill in a few years. Until its destruction by flare in not quite 1907, the mill was one of the most important upon Grand Traverse Bay, cutting eight and one-half million feet of hardwood lumber in 1883. Other industries in the nineteenth century included a brickyard (off today’s M-22, north of Cedar Creek), brewery (on today’s East Grandview Road), and tannery. When the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad entered town upon its pretension to Traverse City in 1892, the station was called “Greilicks” and the surrounding community gradually took this name, although the U.S. Post Office continued as Norrisville until it closed on July 31, 1902. In 1961, when Greilickville’s population was nearly 900, a special election was held in sections 28 and 33 of Elmwood Township, including Greilickville, to find a proposal around making those areas a home-rule village called Elmwood. The proposal was defeated by a vote of 238 to 88.

Greilickville is in the southeastern corner of Leelanau County and of Elmwood Charter Township. It is bordered to the south by Traverse City in Grand Traverse County and to the east by the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay, part of Lake Michigan. The CDP extends north to the north decline of Cedar Lake and west to Bugai Road. Michigan highway M-22 runs through the east side of Greilickville along the shore of Grand Traverse Bay, leading south into Traverse City and north 14 miles (23 km) to Suttons Bay.