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Located on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Houghton is the largest city in the Copper Country region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Upper Peninsula, with a population of 8,386 at the 2020 United States census. Houghton is the principal city of the Houghton micropolitan area, which includes all of Houghton and Keweenaw counties.
Hancock is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.The population of Hancock was 4,501 at the 2020 United States census.The city is located within Houghton County, and is situated upon the Keweenaw Waterway, a channel of Lake Superior that cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula.
ZIP code(s) 49930 . Area code: 906: ... GNIS feature ID: 1626429 [2] Hancock Township is a civil township of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
The Portage Lake Lift Bridge (officially the Houghton–Hancock Bridge [3]) connects the cities of Hancock and Houghton, in the US state of Michigan.It crosses Portage Lake, a portion of the waterway which cuts across the Keweenaw Peninsula with a canal linking the final several miles to Lake Superior to the northwest.
Oneco is an unincorporated community in the township containing Houghton County Memorial Airport. Ripley is an unincorporated community in the township, just east of Hancock on M-26. Paavola is an unincorporated community in the township, north and east of Hancock, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of US 41.
As of the census [1] of 2000, there were 634 people, 253 households, and 170 families residing in the township. The population density was 3.4 inhabitants per square mile (1.3/km 2).
The area is on Quincy Hill, northeast of Hancock, and lying partially within Quincy Township and partially within Franklin Township. Franklin Mine is located at 47°08′24″N 88°34′24″W / 47.14000°N 88.57333°W / 47.14000; -88.57333 and is named after the eponymous
Houghton County (/ ˈ h oʊ t ən /; HOH-tən) is a county in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,361. [2] The county seat and largest city is Houghton. [3] [4] Both the county and the city were named for Michigan State geologist and Detroit Mayor Douglass Houghton. [5] [3]