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  2. Bad Axe, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Bad Axe is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Huron County [4] in the Thumb region of the Lower Peninsula. The population was 3,021 at the 2020 census , making it the largest community in Huron County and second largest in the Upper Thumb, after Caro .

  3. Huron County, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    The county seat is Bad Axe. [3] Huron County is at the northern tip of the Thumb , which is a sub region of Mid Michigan . It is a peninsula, bordered by Saginaw Bay to the west and Lake Huron to the north and east, and has over 90 miles (140 km) of shoreline, from White Rock on Lake Huron to Sebewaing on the Saginaw Bay.

  4. Huron Daily Tribune - Wikipedia

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    The Huron Daily Tribune is a daily newspaper in Bad Axe, Michigan. [2] The newspaper serves Huron County, in the upper part of "The Thumb". Its parent company, Huron Publishing Company, is owned by Hearst Corporation. [3] In 1979, Hearst took over the Huron Publishing Company based in Bad Axe, Michigan, in the Thumb area of Huron County. This ...

  5. The Thumb - Wikipedia

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    The Thumb is a region and a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten.The Thumb area is generally considered to be in the Central Michigan region, east of the Flint area and the Tri-Cities and north of Metro Detroit.

  6. Talk:Bad Axe, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Yes, from a broken axe that was found when the area was being surveyed: Bad Axe, the county seat, had its beginnings in the wilderness around 1865. A military surveyor, Captain Randolph Pabst, named a camp site at the meeting of two major trails "Bad Axe Camp" on his charts, supposedly after an old rusted axe left at the campsite by local hunters.

  7. Albert E. Sleeper House - Wikipedia

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    Albert E. Sleeper was born in Vermont in 1862. He moved to Lexington, Michigan in 1884, and in 1904 relocated to Bad Axe. Sleeper served as a state senator from 1901 to 1904, as state treasurer from 1908 to 1912, and as governor from 1917 to 1920. [2]

  8. Colfax Township, Huron County, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    The city of Bad Axe is on the eastern boundary and has incorporated land that had formerly been in the township. Popple is a tiny unincorporated community in the southwest corner of the township along M-53 /S. Van Dyke Road between Pinnebog and Kilmanagh/Popple Roads about five miles southwest of Bad Axe on the Pinnebog River at 43°46′16″N ...

  9. Category:People from Bad Axe, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    The following people were either born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Bad Axe, Michigan. Pages in category "People from Bad Axe, Michigan" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.