Category: Protected areas of Keweenaw County, Michigan

Houghton was named after Houghton County, which was named after Douglass Houghton, an American geologist and physician, primarily known for his exploration of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan.

Dreamland is an unincorporated community on Copper Island ( the Keweenaw Peninsula ), in Torch Lake Township, Houghton County, in the Upper Peninsula of the U. S. state of Michigan.

Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island ( 980 miles ) and Barnstable County, Massachusetts, which includes Cape Cod ( 550 miles ), Chippewa County, Michigan ( 456 miles ), and Keweenaw County, Michigan ( 424 miles ) have more.

* Keweenaw County, Michigan ( east-water boundary in Lake Superior, near Isle Royale )

* Keweenaw County ( north, water boundary only, in Lake Superior )

The county has the second-highest proportion of water area of any county in the United States, behind only Keweenaw County, Michigan.

Keweenaw County is a county in the Upper Peninsula of the U. S. state of Michigan.

The Keweenaw Liberty Library is an online library containing links to legal documents and public records it deems to be " on issues important to " Keweenaw County, Michigan, and its constituent townships as well as the Keweenaw County Road Commission, which serves as the road commission for the county.

Keweenaw County is the northernmost county in Michigan.

Of all counties ( or county-equivalents ) in the United States, Keweenaw County has the highest proportion of water area to total area.

The Keweenaw County Courthouse ( built 1866 ) in Eagle River, Michigan | Eagle River

Polished native copper nugget from Keweenaw County.

Keweenaw County copper mines were important producers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Because of this trend, Keweenaw County is also the only Michigan county to have a lower population in the year 2000 than in 1900.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Keweenaw County, Michigan

The L ' Anse Indian Reservation is the land base of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of the Lake Superior Bands of Chippewa Indians ( successor apparent of the L ’ Anse and Ontonagon Bands ).

The Keweenaw Rocket Range was an isolated launch pad located in U. S. state of Michigan ’ s Keweenaw Peninsula.

" The new county included the present-day counties of Keweenaw and Baraga, and was organized into three election precincts ( townships ) at Eagle Harbor, Houghton, and L ' Anse.

Eagle Harbor Township is a civil township of Keweenaw County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

The Keweenaw County, Michigan | Keweenaw County courthouse in Eagle River

Eagle River is an unincorporated community in the U. S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Keweenaw County.

Eagle River was a boom town of the copper mining era in the Keweenaw.

The land of the Eagle River community had been leased by the Keweenaw Copper Company in 1843.

The Eagle River Light is a decommissioned lighthouse at the mouth of the Eagle River in the community of Eagle River on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the U. S. state of Michigan.

With the discovery of the " Cliff Lode " in 1845 and the subsequent copper mining operations there, Eagle River became a booming port city and rivalled Copper Harbor as the biggest boom town in the Keweenaw.

Although the harbor quickly fell into disrepair, the light station continued to serve as the only marker of the shore between the Keweenaw Waterway and Eagle Harbor.

Based on total area, Ahmeek holds the distinction of being the largest incorporated community, in the largest county ( Keweenaw County, 5, 965. 96 square miles ( water and land ; Marquette County is largest Michigan county by land area only ) in the largest state ( Michigan, 96, 716. 11 square miles ), east of the Mississippi River, located within the United States.

* Montreal River ( Michigan ), a river in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan in the United States

Parts of the waterway are variously known as the Keweenaw Waterway, Portage Canal, Portage Lake Canal, Portage River, Lily Pond, Torch Lake, and Portage Lake.

The Salmon Trout River in Houghton County, long, flows into Lake Superior on the west side of the Keweenaw Peninsula near Redridge at 47 ° 09 ' 10 " north latitude, 88 ° 46 ' 22 " west longitude.

There is also River Raisin National Battlefield Park, the Keweenaw National Historical Park and the Father Marquette National Memorial, although the latter is managed by the Michigan state park system for the national government.

E. J. Hulbert, a friend of Agassiz's brother-in-law, Quincy Adams Shaw, had discovered a rich copper lode known as the Calumet conglomerate on the Keweenaw Peninsula Lake Superior in Michigan.

Houghton gained in importance as a port with the opening of the Keweenaw Waterway in 1873 ; the waterway being the cumulative dredging and extension of the Portage Lake, Portage Shipping Canal and Lily Pond so as to isolate the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula into Copper Island.

Copper Island is a local name given to the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula ( projecting northeastward into Lake Superior at the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States of America ), separated from the rest of the Keweenaw Peninsula by Portage Lake and the Keweenaw Waterway.

The area was " isolated " by dredging in 1859 and construction in the 1860s of a ship canal across an isthmus of the Keweenaw Peninsula from Portage Lake — on the east side of the Keweenaw Peninsula — to Lake Superior on the west.

Historically, " Kuparisaari " (' Copper Island ') was used to mean the Keweenaw north of Portage Lake, but more generically the copper country of the Upper Peninsula.

Portage Lake ( Keweenaw ) | Portage Lake is at right center of this 2010 Doc Searles photo.

Hancock is connected to Houghton, Michigan by the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, which crosses the dredged Keweenaw Waterway.

The county is located in the state's Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior, at the southeast base of the Keweenaw Peninsula.

The villages of Baraga and L ' Anse are located at the base of Lake Superior's Keweenaw Bay.

The village of L ' Anse was founded in early 1871 when Jacob Houghton, chief engineer for the Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad, arrived to plat a preliminary route from the eastern end of Lake Michigamme to the head of the Keweenaw Bay.

* Rabbit Bay is an unincorporated community lying on the bay of that name, on Keweenaw Bay on Lake Superior on the east side of the township.