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An 1831 map of Michigan by David H. Burr, showing boundaries of early counties Wayne County, Michigan , originally part of the vast Northwest Territory, was eventually whittled down into its current size by the separation of several tracts: Monroe in 1817, Michilimackinac County (later called Mackinac ) and Macomb counties in 1818, St. Clair ...
2009 Michigan had the worst unemployment rate of any state, peaking at over 15%, due to the Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010 and the Great Recession. 2010 Michigan lost 0.6% of its population since the previous census, the first decline in its population recorded by the United States Census Bureau.
Detroit, c. 1837, after a sketch by Frederick Grain A map of Michigan by Henry Schenck Tanner, published in 1842, showing such county names as "Negwegon County," "Okkuddo County," and "Unwattin County," prior to an 1843 legislative action renaming sixteen counties in northern Michigan [40] Agriculture remained the main economic activity before ...
Castroville is located in northern Monterey County at coordinates 36°45′57″N 121°45′29″W. It is 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Salinas, the Monterey county seat; 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Monterey; and 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Santa Cruz. Prunedale, along U.S. Route 101, is 5 miles (8 km) to the east.
The Cabinet counties are ten counties in the southern part of the U.S. state of Michigan named after President Andrew Jackson and people who served in his Cabinet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Michigan Territorial legislature created twelve counties on October 29, 1829, [ 3 ] naming eight of them after members of the recently elected Jackson's cabinet.
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.
Antrim County (/ ˈ æ n t r ə m / AN-trəm) is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,431. [2] The county seat is Bellaire. [3] The name is taken from County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Antrim County is home to Torch Lake, Michigan's deepest and second-largest inland lake.
A detail from A New Map of Michigan with its Canals, Roads & Distances (1842) by Henry Schenck Tanner, showing Roscommon County as "Mickenauk" (a misspelling of Mikenauk, the county's name from 1840 to 1843. [4]) Several nearby counties are also shown with names that would later be changed.