Middleville is a village in Thornapple Township, Barry County, in the U.S. state of Michigan and allowance of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. The population was 4,295 at the 2020 census.

The first white settler to own home in the village was Calvin G. Hill, a original of New York, who bought 400 acres (1.6 km) in 1834 on both sides of the Thornapple River. The village was likely surveyed and subdivided since 1850, but the plat was not officially recorded until 1859. Prior to 1843, the deal was often called “Thornapple”. The publicize Middleville was at first unmovable to a post office upon the stage coach line amid Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. The name office was located at the house of Benjamin S. Dibble in section 2 in northeast Yankee Springs Township. Dibble had enormously to take the proclaim office at the demand of U.S. Representative Lucius Lyon, of Kent County. Lyon suggested the name “Dibbleville”, but Dibble disliked that name. “Middleville” was suggested because of the proximity of an Indian village known as “Middle Village” on Scales Prairie close the boundary line surrounded by Thornapple and Yankee Springs townships. Dibble was appointed postmaster in July 1839 and continued until 1842. The neighboring postmaster, John W. Bradley, continued to preserve the proclaim office at Dibble’s home until 1843, when it was moved to the gift village of Middleville, with Calvin G. Hill as the postmaster. The village afterwards became known by the herald of the pronounce office. The location of the indigenous Indian village is NNE a few hundred yards of the present day intersection where Norris Rd. ends at Adams Rd.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total Place of 2.40 square miles (6.22 km), of which 2.28 square miles (5.91 km²) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.31 km) is water.

Several West Michigan television stations have their transmitting towers in the Middleville area, including: WOOD-TV and WXMI.