Five Michigan Upper Peninsula counties include nearby major islands: Mackinac Island, Round Island and Bois Blanc Island in Lake Huron are in Mackinac County; Sugar Island and Neebish Island in the St. Marys River, and Drummond Island in Lake Huron are in Chippewa County; Grand Island is in Alger County; Summer Island is Delta County; and Isle ...

The State of Superior (or State of Ontonagon) is a proposed "51st state" that would be created by the secession of the Upper Peninsula from the rest of Michigan, named for adjacent Lake Superior.Some proposals would also incorporate territory from the northern Lower Peninsula, northern Wisconsin, and even Minnesota.The proposals are spurred by cultural differences, geographic separation from ...

Copper knife, spearpoints, awls, and spade made from copper deposits mined by Native Americans in Wisconsin from the Late Archaic period, 3000 BC-1000 BC.. Native Americans were the first to mine and work the copper of Lake Superior and the Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan between 5000 BCE and 1200 BCE. The natives used this copper to produce tools. Archaeological expeditions in the ...

Marquette (/ m ɑːr ˈ k ɛ t / mar-KET) is the county seat of Marquette County and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States.Located on the shores of Lake Superior, Marquette is a major port known primarily for shipping iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range.The city is partially surrounded by Marquette Township, but the two are administered autonomously.

Michigan map, including territorial waters. Michigan consists of two peninsulas surrounded primarily by four of the Great Lakes and a variety of nearby islands. The Upper Peninsula is bounded on the southwest by Wisconsin, and the Lower Peninsula is bounded on the south by Indiana and Ohio.Both land masses are also separated from the Canadian province of Ontario by waterways of the Great Lakes ...

The district is the second-largest congressional district east of the Mississippi River by land area, only behind Maine's 2nd congressional district.Its boundaries contain the entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan and much of the northern part of the Lower Peninsula.Altogether, the district makes up about 44% of the land area of the state of Michigan yet contains only 7% of …

The Keweenaw Peninsula (/ ˈ k iː w ə n ɔː /, KEE-wə-naw) is a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.Part of the greater landmass of the Upper Peninsula, the Keweenaw Peninsula projects about 65 miles (105 km) northeasterly into Lake Superior, forming Keweenaw Bay.The peninsula is part of Michigan's Copper Country region, as the region was home to the first major copper mining boom in ...

H-13 is a county-designated highway in the Upper Peninsula of the US state of Michigan that runs north–south for approximately 36.2 miles (58.3 km) between Nahma Junction in Delta County and the Munising area in Alger County.The highway is also signed as Federal Forest Highway 13 (FFH-13), a Federal Forest Highway between Nahma Junction and Wetmore.The roadway runs through rural national ...

The Ontonagon River (/ ˌ ɒ n t ə ˈ n ɑː ɡ ən / ON-tə-NAH-gən) is a river flowing into Lake Superior at the village of Ontonagon, on the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States.The main stem of the river is 25 miles (40 km) long [4] and is formed by a confluence of several longer branches, portions of which have been collectively designated as a National Wild and ...

The Huron Mountains are located in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, mostly in Marquette County, and extending into Baraga County, overlooking Lake Superior.Their highest peak is Mount Arvon, which is the highest point in Michigan at 1,979 feet (603 m) above sea level.Nearby Mount Curwood, Michigan's second highest mountain at 1,978 feet (603 m), is also a part of the Huron ...