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Area code. 906 [a] The Upper Peninsula of Michigan —also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop —is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac. It is bounded primarily by Lake Superior to the north ...
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.
Ontonagon County (/ ˌ ɒ n t ə ˈ n ɑː ɡ ən / ON-tə-NAH-gən) is a county in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,816, [3] making it Michigan's third-least populous county.
Michigan consists of two peninsulas surrounded primarily by four of the Great Lakes and a variety of nearby islands. The Upper Peninsula is bounded on the southwest by Wisconsin, and the Lower Peninsula is bounded on the south by Indiana and Ohio. Both land masses are also separated from the Canadian province of Ontario by waterways of the ...
Website. www.co.marquette.mi.us. Marquette County (/ mɑːrˈkɛt / mar-KET) is a county located in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 66,017. [2] It is the most populous county in the Upper Peninsula. The county seat is Marquette. [3] The county is named for Father Marquette, a Jesuit ...
It is the primary city of the Sault Ste. Marie, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Chippewa County and had a population of 36,785 at the 2020 census. Sault Ste. Marie was settled by mostly French colonists in 1668, making it the oldest city in Michigan.
FIPS code. 26-56200 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1620952 [3] Website. Official website. Munising (/ ˈmjuːnəsɪŋ / MEW-nə-sing) is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,986 at the 2020 census, thus making it the 17th largest in the Upper Peninsula. It is the county seat of Alger County. [4]
Congress awarded the "Toledo Strip" to Ohio. Michigan received the western part of the Upper Peninsula as a concession and formally entered the Union as a state on January 26, 1837. When iron and copper were discovered in the Upper Peninsula, impetus was created for the construction of the Soo Locks, completed in 1855.