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Website. miottawa.org. Ottawa County (/ ˈɒtəwə / OT-ə-wə) is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the United States 2020 Census, the population was 296,200. [1] The county seat is Grand Haven. [2] The county is named for the Ottawa Nation. It was set off in 1831 and organized in 1837.
Grand Traverse County (/ ˈ t r æ v ər s / TRAV-ərss) is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan.As of the 2020 census, the population was 95,238, making it the largest county in Northern Michigan. [2]
The territory of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians is the Grand Traverse Indian Reservation (45°01′13″N 85°36′22″W), as established by United States Secretary of the Interior on 27 May 1980, and includes lands acquired by the Band. The Grand Traverse Band's Treaty Ceded Territories from the 1836 Treaty covers an ...
Grand Traverse Bay (/ ˈtrævərs / TRAV-ərss) is an arm of Lake Michigan, located along the west coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The bay is separated from the rest of Lake Michigan by the Leelanau Peninsula. The bay is some 32 miles (51 km) long, ranges from 7 to 10 miles (11 to 16 km) wide, and up to 620 feet (190 m) deep in spots.
In Michigan, three main groups organizing through the 1930s and 1940s were the Michigan Indian Defense Association (1933), the Michigan Indian Foundation (1941), and the Northern Michigan Ottawa Association (NMOA) (1948). The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa was known as the NMOA, Unit 1, as there were other bands represented in this group.
Website. Official website. Grand Haven is a city within the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Ottawa County. [4] Grand Haven is located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Grand River, for which it is named. As of the 2020 census, Grand Haven had a population of 11,011.
1,476 sq mi (3,823 km 2) 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 ...
The Leelanau Peninsula (/ ˈliːlənɔː / LEE-lə-naw) is a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan that extends about 30 miles (50 km) from the western side of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan into Lake Michigan, forming Grand Traverse Bay. It is often referred to as the "little finger" of the mitten-shaped lower peninsula.