Saranac is a village in Boston Twp, Ionia County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,325 at the 2010 census. Today, Saranac serves as a retail and facilities hub for agricultural areas surrounding the village.

Saranac had its roots in 1836, when a Grand Rapids find by the herald of Jefferson Morrison purchased the house where Lake Creek meets the Grand River. Soon after, he sold parts of the estate to Dwight & Hutchinson from Detroit, and together, they founded the village. Proceeding quickly, the proprietors named it Saranac and held a public sale in Detroit. There they sold off many Saranac lots without produce a result much to ensure the integrity of their original records.
Soon after, Dwight & Hutchinson became concerned over the dearth of increase of the village by the lot-purchasers and gave Cyprian S. Hooker land upon which to construct a saw mill. Construction began in 1837, but didn’t see completion until 1841. Partnering gone a furniture maker named Jerry Stocking, the two set out to make their fortunes in the further village. However, they did not locate success, and in 1846, the gentlemen gave stirring and moved away. Other villagers followed suit, convinced the village was doomed.
In 1847, a merchant named Ammon Wilson moved in and set happening shop upon Stocking’s former property and far ahead built a warehouse to ship wheat to Grand Rapids, which maxim considerable success. The village grew on it; a tavern and a hotel soon followed.
In 1851, proprietors of the sold-off lots were allowed to re-dub the township “Boston”, due to an oversight in Dwight & Hutchinson’s chronicles and it wouldn’t be until 1859 that popular request would look the say changed put taking place to to “Saranac”. Schools, stores, and churches, followed in the subsequent years.
In 1857, the first train to reach Saranac rolled through, marking a significant epoch of lump for the village. Lorren Denman a noted kiln operator moreover was raised in Saranac.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total Place of 1.20 square miles (3.11 km), of which 1.15 square miles (2.98 km²) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km) is water.

The village is located along the Grand River Valley, within a deep glacial drainage channel and is intersected by the Grand River. The landscape itself is dominated by dense forest, and sprawling, open farmland. The plant is nearby associated when the basin of the Grand River and its floodplains and wetlands. However, wetlands have dwindled over the years, due to drainage and filling in order to increase agricultural opportunities within the region. This is not abnormal within the welcome of Michigan, despite the gigantic ecological importance that Michigan’s wetlands possess.