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Missaukee County, Michigan

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
3historic places
—earliest paper
1840formed
15,052pop. 2020
22cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Missaukee County, Lake City, L'Anse 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 Missaukee titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Aetna EarthworksMissaukee CountySite1973
Boven EarthworkLake CitySite1973
Canyon Falls BridgeL'Anse TownshipStructure1999

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

MISSAUKEE created from MICHILIMACKINAC (now MACKINAC).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

15k7,5911301870188019201950196020002020
1870188019001920194019501960198020002020
1301,5539,3089,0048,0347,4586,78410,00914,47815,052

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

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

Cemeteries — 22 of 22 listed
NameLatLon
Aetna Cemetery44.29361-85.06337
Bloomfield Cemetery44.44389-85.29616
Butterfield Cemetery44.29251-84.9592
Caldwell Cemetery44.39778-85.31699
Clam Union Cemetery44.23216-85.08386
East Moddersville Cemetery44.21932-84.92795
Lake City Cemetery44.34583-85.21754
Moorestown Cemetery44.45778-84.98392
Mount View Cemetery44.18695-85.21754
New Jennings Cemetery44.32694-85.2956
Old Jennings Cemetery44.30109-85.29626
Old Lake City Cemetery44.33888-85.21194
Pioneer Cemetery44.4675-85.12449
Prosper Cemetery44.24305-85.02277
Reeder Cemetery44.29389-85.12004
Richland Cemetery44.20861-85.28393
Riverside Cemetery44.2085-85.15455
Star City Cemetery44.36078-84.985
Stittsville Cemetery44.44666-85.07361
Vogel Center Cemetery44.19251-85.08142
West Branch Cemetery44.41-85.07393
West Moddersville Cemetery44.22072-84.97245

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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