Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Houghton
- Incorporated
- 1863 (village), 1903 (city)
- Named after
- John Hancock
- Type
- Council–manager
- Mayor
- Kurt Rickard
- Manager
- Mary Babcock
- Total
- 2.78 sq mi (7.20 km )
- Land
- 2.78 sq mi (7.20 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 696 ft (212 m)
- Density
- 1,619.4/sq mi (625.25/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST ( UTC-5 ))
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT ( UTC-4 ))
- Fips code
- 26-36300
- Gnis feature id
- 0627710
- Website
- Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Hancock
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Houghton County
- Population
- 4501
- Area
- 7.69384
- Elevation
- 212
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Official website
- www.cityofhancock.com
- Image
- HancockMichiganPanoramaM26.jpg
- Households
- 1837
- Dialing code
- 906
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- Commons category
- Hancock, Michigan
- postal code
- 49930
- inception
- 1846-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 12.5511
- per capita income
- 27649
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
Hancock is a city in Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,501 at the 2020 census.
Located on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Hancock is along on the northside of the Keweenaw Waterway opposite of the city of Houghton, and the two are connected by the Portage Lake Lift Bridge. Hancock is the northernmost city in the state of Michigan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hancock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.