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Escanaba
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Delta
- Incorporated
- 1866 (village), 1883 (city)
- Founded by
- Eli Parsons Royce
- Named after
- Ojibwe for "land of the red buck"
- Type
- Council–manager
- Mayor
- Mark Ammel
- City manager
- James McNeil
- City council
- Members Karen Moore - Mayor Pro Tem Ron Beauchamp Todd Flath Tyler DuBord
- Total
- 16.37 sq mi (42.39 km )
- Land
- 12.75 sq mi (33.01 km )
- Water
- 3.62 sq mi (9.38 km )
- Elevation
- 607 ft (185 m)
- Density
- 976.9/sq mi (377.17/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 49829, 49894
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Escanaba (/ˌɛskəˈnɑːbə/ ES-kə-NAH-bə), commonly shortened to Esky, is a port city in and the county seat of Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan, located on Little Bay de Noc in the state's Upper Peninsula. The population was 12,450 at the 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Upper Peninsula after Marquette and Sault Ste. Marie.
There is also Escanaba Township, which is north of the city and is not adjacent to it, although a portion of the urban area around the city extends into the township. Both are named for the Escanaba River, which flows into the Little Bay de Noc of Lake Michigan just north of the city. The names are derived from the Ojibwa language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Escanaba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.