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0631600 [8] Website. marquettemi.gov. Marquette (/ mɑːrˈkɛt / mar-KET) is the county seat of Marquette County and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. Located on the shores of Lake Superior, Marquette is a major port known primarily for shipping iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range.
Grand Traverse County: 055: Traverse City: 1840 (boundaries declared) 1851 (organized) From part of Mackinac County; named Omeena County until 1851. French grande traverse [note 1] ("long crossing"), given first to Grand Traverse Bay by French voyageurs. 96,421: 601 sq mi (1,557 km 2) Gratiot County: 057: Ithaca: 1831: From unorganized territory.
This area is commonly referred to as Northwestern Michigan or the Traverse Bay Area, after Grand Traverse Bay. The area consists of the counties of Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau. As of the 2020 census, the Traverse City metropolitan area had a population of 153,448. Nearly one in three residents of Northern Michigan (with a ...
Traverse City (/ ˈtrævərs / TRAV-ərss) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Grand Traverse County, [ 5 ] although it partly extends into Leelanau County. The population was 15,678 at the 2020 census, with 153,448 residents in the four-county Traverse City metropolitan area.
Michigan's state parks system was started in 1919. Three Michigan state parks pre-date the creation of the park system in 1919: Mackinac Island State Park (1895), Michilimackinac State Park (1909) and Interlochen State Park (1917). Mackinac Island State Park was created in 1895. It had served as the nation's second national park for two decades ...
Its county seat is Traverse City. [3] The county is part of the Traverse City metropolitan area, which also includes neighboring Benzie, Kalkaska, and Leelanau counties. Long a part of territory under the Council of Three Fires (comprising the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi), Grand Traverse County's first European settlement was established in ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 3,425 square miles (8,870 km 2), of which 1,808 square miles (4,680 km 2) is land and 1,616 square miles (4,190 km 2) (47%) is water. [4] It is the largest county in Michigan by land area and fourth-largest by total area. The Huron Mountains are located in the county.
Straits State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Michigan located in Moran Township and St. Ignace in Mackinac County on the northern shores of the Straits of Mackinac. The Father Marquette National Memorial and park is also located within the state park boundaries. The park has 255 campsites and several locations for viewing the ...