| Kensington, Michigan | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community and former village |
| Pushpin Map: | Michigan |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Label: | Kensington |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of Michigan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Townships |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Name1: | Michigan |
| Subdivision Name2: | Oakland |
| Subdivision Name3: | Lyon |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1831 |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code(s) |
| Postal Code: | 48178 (South Lyon) |
| Area Code: | 248 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 26-84240[1] |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 1627218 |
Kensington is an unincorporated community and former village in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located within Lyon Township.
Settled in 1831, Kensington suffered population loss when the railroad diverted the Detroit to Lansing traffic southward to South Lyon. The later building of I-96 and the Kensington Metropark in the 1950s caused the community to disappear.[2]
Kensington was settled in 1831 and platted in 1836.[2] On June 9, 1834 a U.S. Post Office opened with the name of Lyon on Kent Lake Road between Grand River Avenue and Silver Lake Road . On September 5, 1836, the Lyon Post Office was renamed Kensington.[3] By 1854 it had over 300 residents. With the building of the Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad in 1871 it suffered a significant loss of population that was further accelerated by the building of the Michigan Air Line Railroad in 1882 that went through New Hudson.[2] On July 31, 1902, the Kensington Post Office was closed.[3] By 1905 there were only four families left in the village. Most of its buildings were leveled when Kensington Metropark and I-96 (then US-16) were built in the 1950s.[2]