ALMA, a city of Gratiot county, Mich., U.S.A., on the Pine river, 37m. W. of Saginaw, almost exactly in the geographical centre of the lower peninsula. It is served by the Ann Arbor and the Pere Marquette railways. The population increased between 1910 and 193o from 2,757 to 6,734. It has good water-power. Its factories make automobile steering wheels, motor-trucks, beet sugar, cement blocks, and pickles. It is the shipping point for a fertile farming and grazing district, and is the seat of Alma college and the State Masonic home. The city was incorporated in 1905, and adopted a commission-manager form of government in 1919.