Houghton County, Michigan, United States

Details for Houghton County

Name

Houghton County

Place Type

County

Located in

Michigan, United States

County Seat

Houghton

Coordinates

Latitude		46.9499301		46° 56' 59.7" N
Longitude		-88.6834631		88° 41' 00.5" W

Population

35,446

Elevation

262 m

Surrounding Counties

Keweenaw NE
Marquette SE
Baraga SE
Iron S
Ontonagon SW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1622973

Histopolis Place ID

909380642

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Houghton County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Houghton County, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_County,_Michigan (17 Jul 2010)

Houghton County, Michigan MI, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Houghton County, Michigan MI, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=21870 (15 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Houghton County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=21870&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Dec 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Houghton County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Houghton County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MI/Houghton/cem/ (28 Dec 2008)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1257 (27 Aug 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Houghton County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Houghton County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MI/Houghton/ (22 Feb 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Houghton County, Mich. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/HO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

USGenWeb Archives: Michigan Table of Counties [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/houghton/3101cemeteries.htm (13 Jul 2010)

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Surveys in Houghton County

1 Survey, 7 Ranges, 39 Townships

The Michigan Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Houghton County. You can navigate to any of the 39 survey townships that overlap Houghton County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships, Charter Townships and Cities of Houghton County

12 Townships, 2 Charter Townships, 2 Cities (Township is assumed unless noted)

Adams	Calumet Charter Township (charter township)	Chassell	Duncan
Elm River	Franklin	Hancock	Hancock (city)
Houghton (city)	Laird	Osceola	Portage Charter Township (charter township)
Quincy	Schoolcraft	Stanton	Torch Lake

Cities of Houghton County

2 Cities, 5 Villages, 70 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Alston	Arcadian	Askel	Atlantic Mine
Baltic	Beacon Hill	Birch Grove Mobile Home Park	Boston
Calumet (village)	Centennial	Centennial Heights	Champion Mine
Chassell	Chassell Bay Cabins Mobile Home Park	Copper City (village)	Dodgeville
Dollar Bay	Donken	Dreamland	Elo
Franklin Mine	Freda	Frost	Gregoryville
Hancock (city)	Hazel	Houghton (city)	Hubbell
Hurontown	Jacobsville	Kearsarge	Kenton
Klingville	Lake Linden (village)	Lake Roland	Lakeview
Laurium (village)	Lewer Pewabic	Liminga	Mason
Mill Mine Junction	Nisula	Osceola	Oskar
Paavola	Painesdale	Pewabic	Phillipsville
Pilgrim	Point Mills	Pori	Portage Entry
Quincy Mill	Rabbit Bay	Redridge	Ripley
Salmon Trout	Schmidt Corner	Senter	Sidnaw
South Range (village)	Stonington	Sunshine Beach	Superior
Swedetown	Tamarack	Tapiola	Toivola
Traverse Bay	Trimountain	Twin Lakes	West Tamarack
White	White City	Winona	Wolverine
Wyandotte

Cemeteries of Houghton County

29 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Alston	American Legion	Askel	Atlantic Mine
Calvary	Centennial	Chassell Township	Elo
Forest Hill	Hecla	Jacobsville	Kargi
Kenton	Kitchie	Kitchie	Lakeside
Lakeview	Liminga (*)	Lutheran	Maple Hill
Mountain View	Nisula Lutheran	Oskar	Oskar
Redridge	Saint Joseph	Sidnaw	St. Joseph (*)
Toivola	Waasa	Woodland

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