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Montmorency County, Michigan

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0historic places

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1840formed

9,153pop. 2020

12cemeteries

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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

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

CHEONOQUET (now MONTMORENCY) created from MICHILIMACKINAC (now MACKINAC) and Non-County Area 2 attached to SAGINAW.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,487	3,234	4,089	3,840	4,125	4,424	7,492	10,315	9,153

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

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

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Avery Cemetery	45.01222	-84.07389
Briley Cemetery	45.00889	-84.17083
Finnish Cemetery	44.88445	-84.22473
Gingell Cemetery	45.00694	-84.32278
Hillman Cemetery	45.07472	-83.93555
Lewiston Cemetery	44.89167	-84.30223
Loud Cemetery	44.87056	-84.05166
Montmorency Cemetery	45.17417	-83.89666
Rust Cemetery	44.98694	-83.94611
Saint Augustine Cemetery	45.07278	-83.93749
Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Cemetery	44.9062	-84.29235
Saint Johns Cemetery	45.17306	-83.89749

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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