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Kalkaska County, Michigan

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1840formed

17,939pop. 2020

13cemeteries

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At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kalkaska was formed in 1840 (1840-04-01) from Michilimackinac.

WABASSEE (now KALKASKA) created from MICHILIMACKINAC (now MACKINAC).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Kalkaska County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
424	2,937	7,133	5,577	5,159	4,597	4,382	10,952	16,571	17,939

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

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

Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Clark Cemetery	44.55499	-85.31388
Clearwater Township Cemetery	44.81522	-85.25093
Cold Spring Cemetery	44.80887	-85.05166
Deibert Cemetery	44.58388	-85.24166
Evergreen Cemetery	44.73221	-85.19111
Excelsior Cemetery	44.7311	-85.05305
Garfield Cemetery	44.58417	-85.16977
Lodi Cemetery	44.63721	-85.17444
Maplegrove Cemetery	44.80028	-85.15394
Oliver Cemetery	44.65639	-85.07282
Saint Mary of the Woods Catholic Cemetery	44.77965	-85.30395
South Boardman Cemetery	44.64777	-85.29194
Westwood Cemetery	44.85194	-85.15422

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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