Calumet (Mich.)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
קלומט (מישיגן)
Name (Latin)
Calumet (Mich.)
Coordinates
-88.45388889 -88.45388889 47.24666667 47.24666667 (gooearth )
W0882714 W0882714 N0471448 N0471448 (geonames )
See Also From tracing place name
Hecla (Mich.)
Red Jacket (Mich.)
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 131358060
Wikidata: Q2645447
Library of congress: n 81061310
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 47°14ʹ48ʺN 088°27ʹ14ʺW)
  • Wellge, H. Calumet, Hecla & Red Jacket, Mich., 1881 (subj.)view recto (Calumet)
  • Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1980(Calumet; Houghton Co.)
  • Romig, W. Michigan place names, 1972(Calumet; absorbed Hecla & in 1929 united with Red Jacket under name Calumet)
  • Michigan official dir. and leg. manual, 1931/32(Calumet, Houghton County, Calumet Township; incorporated 1875 as Red Jacket; name changed 1929 to Calumet)
  • Village of Calumet, Michigan, 1875-1975, 1975:p. 8 (the village of Red Jacket renamed Calumet in 1929)

Wikipedia description:

Calumet ( KAL-yoo-MET or locally KAL-yə-MET) is a village in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The village is located within Calumet Township, Houghton County, and had a population of 621 at the 2020 census. Calumet was once the center of Michigan's copper mining industry. The village is home to a unit of Keweenaw National Historical Park, and also includes the Calumet Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Most of the village itself is also included within the Calumet Historic District, a larger area which is NRHP-listed and which is a National Historic Landmark District.

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