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Gogebic County, Michigan

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

11historic places

—earliest paper

1887formed

14,380pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 11 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Ironwood, Bessemer, Bessemer Township.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Michigan is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Gogebic titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 11 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

11 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot	Ironwood	Building	1985
Copper Peak	Ironwood	Site	1973
Curry, Solomon S., House	Ironwood	Building	1982
Gogebic County Courthouse	Bessemer	Building	1981
Ironwood Carnegie Library	Ironwood	Building	2011
Ironwood City Hall	Ironwood	Building	1980
Ironwood Theatre Complex	Ironwood	Building	1985
Main Street-Black River Bridge	Bessemer Township	Structure	1999
Memorial Building	Ironwood	Building	1980
Planter Road-Jackson Creek Bridge	Wakefield Township	Structure	1999
Rice Bay	Watersmeet Township	Site	2015

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Gogebic was formed in 1887 (1887-02-07) from Ontonagon.

GOGEBIC created from ONTONAGON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Gogebic County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
13,166	16,738	33,225	31,797	27,053	24,370	19,686	17,370	14,380

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

7 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Hillcrest Cemetery	46.48549	-90.04572
Historic Indian Burial Grounds	46.60594	-90.33048
Katakikon Indian Village Cemetery	46.15124	-89.08517
Lakeside Cemetery	46.46759	-89.94689
Marenisco Township Cemetery	46.38525	-89.6975
Riverside Cemetery	46.45994	-90.18295
Watersmeet Township Cemetery	46.27068	-89.18287

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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