Wexford County
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county in Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- Founded
- 1840 (created), 1869 (organized)
- Named after
- County Wexford , Ireland
- Seat
- Cadillac
- Largest city
- Cadillac
- Total
- 575.46 sq mi (1,490.4 km )
- Land
- 565.00 sq mi (1,463.3 km )
- Water
- 10.46 sq mi (27.1 km ) 1.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 34,445
- Density
- 59.598/sq mi (23.011/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional districts
- 1st , 2nd
- Website
- www .wexfordcounty .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Wexford County is a county in the Northern Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 33,673. The seat of Wexford County is Cadillac, which is also the county's largest city.
Wexford County is largely covered by the Manistee National Forest, and thus is heavily wooded. The Manistee River flows from east to west in the north of the county. Briar Hill, the highest point in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, is located in northwestern Wexford County, at 1,706 feet (520 m).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wexford County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.