Parchment is a city in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2010 census recorded a population of 1,804. The broadcast is derived from the parchment company that used to build paper upon the East bank of the Kalamazoo River.

Parchment is located just northeast of the city of Kalamazoo, and it is mostly with Kalamazoo Township.

The Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company was founded in 1909. The founder, Jacob “Uncle Jake” Kindleberger, set taking place shop along the Kalamazoo River. The company later started selling pieces of land located something like the mill to the mill workers. In 1932, Kindleberger left a tract of 40 acres (160,000 m) located in the center of the city; this superior became Kindleberger Park in his honor. In 1939, Parchment became a city by a majority vote. It has been known as The Paper City past then. Over the years, the KVP Company was bought by or merged with further companies, including Sutherland Paper Company, Brown Company, James River, and finally Crown-Vantage. In 2000 paper making in Parchment ended, and thereafter the city has struggled to hold itself. Its population has debated what to pull off with the outdated paper mill property. As of 2011, the first mill building was demolished later plans to demolish the additional building at a forward-looking date.

The mill site came below scrutiny anew in July 2018, when the city discovered fluorosurfactant (PFAS) contamination in the drinking water. Samples from Parchment’s water system showed the drinking water was tainted with PFAS at a level of 1,587-ppt—over 20 get older the EPA limit. Residents were advised to End using the water for drinking/cooking immediately, while the city worked to discover the source of the contamination. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder declared a State of Emergency upon July 29. Bottled water was distributed to residents by volunteers, and the City of Kalamazoo partnered its water system to Parchment. Because of the indistinctive source of the PFAS, and the associated costs for supplementary wells and testing, Mayor Robert Britigan III predicted that Parchment will have to every time use Kalamazoo’s drinking water.