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| Battle Creek, Michigan | |
| Nickname: The Cereal City | |
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| Counties | Calhoun County |
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| Government | |
| - Mayor | John Godfrey |
| Area | |
| - City | 43.7 sq mi (113.1 km²) |
| - Land | 42.8 sq mi (110.9 km²) |
| - Water | 0.8 sq mi (2.2 km²) |
| Population (2000) | |
| - City | 53,364 (city proper) |
| - Density | 1,246.0/sq mi (481.1/km²) |
| Time zone | Eastern (UTC-5) |
| - Summer (DST) | Eastern (UTC-4) |
| Website: ci.battle-creek.mi.us | |
Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Calhoun county. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 53,364.
It is the world headquarters of Kellogg Company, founded by brothers, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and William Keith Kellogg, who invented cold breakfast cereal as an alternative to the traditional meat based breakfast. It is also the home of Post Cereals, which was part of General Foods Corporation and is now part of Kraft Foods.
Battle Creek was featured in the T.C. Boyle novel The Road to Wellville and the movie of the same name.
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