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Menominee County
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county in Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- Founded
- 1861 (established), 1863 (organized)
- Named after
- Menominee tribe
- Seat
- Menominee
- Largest city
- Menominee
- Total
- 1,338 sq mi (3,470 km )
- Land
- 1,044 sq mi (2,700 km )
- Water
- 294 sq mi (760 km ) 22%
- Estimate 2025
- 22,941
- Density
- 23/sq mi (8.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- menomineecounty .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Menominee County (/məˈnɒməni/ mə-NAH-mə-nee) is a county located in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,502. The county seat is Menominee. The county's name comes from an Ojibwe word meaning "wild rice eater" used to describe the Menominee people. The county was created in 1861 from the area partitioned out of Delta County, under the name of Bleeker. When the county government was organized in 1863, the name was changed to Menominee.
Menominee County is part of the Marinette, WI–MI micropolitan statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Menominee County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.