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Luce County, Michigan

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1887formed

5,339pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1982. Most listings are in or near Newberry.

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 Luce titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Luce County Sheriff's House and Jail	Newberry	Building	1982

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Luce was formed in 1887 (1887-03-01) from Chippewa, Mackinac.

LUCE created from CHIPPEWA and MACKINAC.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,455	2,983	6,149	7,423	8,147	7,827	6,659	7,024	5,339

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

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

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Columbus Township Cemetery	46.33249	-85.68722
East Lakefield Cemetery	46.29165	-85.69011
Forest Home Cemetery	46.35043	-85.52382
Old East Lakefield Cemetery	46.25887	-85.67706
West Lakefield Cemetery	46.28137	-85.78206

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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