UP Local Government: official city, village, township, tribal, or other local government Web sites--the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA

Civic - Government - Local - The Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA

City, village, township, tribal, or other local official government Web sites; many UP communities have Web sites describing elected government; see County Government for official Web sites of counties; see the sites section for tourism, area visitor sites, or chambers of commerce Web sites

Au Train: AuTrain Township; on Lake Superior just west of Munising; The Village of Au Train, The Village of Christmas and the 16 Mile Lake Area
Baraga: Village of Baraga
Bay Mills: Bay Mills Indian Community; on Lake Superior, near Brimley, eastern UP, near Sault Ste. Marie
Bessemer: City of Bessemer; in the Western UP near Ironwood; near the UP's major center for downhill snow skiing; annual Bessemer Snowmobile Olympus snowmobile race
Calumet: Village of Calumet; located on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Calumet was a booming city during the copper mining boom (1890-1910), making it the largest UP city of all time
Caspian: City of Caspian; Caspian is in Iron County near Iron River; noted for its historic role in iron mining
Chassell: Chassell Township
Crystal Falls: City of Crystal Falls; in Iron County; noted for its role in iron mining and logging; noted also as the home of what is thought to be the largest and oldest living organism on earth--the "humongous fungus" (Johann N. Bruhn, Journal of Nature, April 1992), Armillaria bulbosa
Escanaba: City of Escanaba; municipal services, city information; Escanaba is on Lake Michigan in the central UP and is a notable port, services, business, light industry center, and seat of Delta County; historically, it is notable for its continued role in lumbering, wood and paper, agricultural products, and sport fishing; on the Little Bay de Noc; the bays moderate the climate and snowfall amounts, so it is sometimes dubbed "the banana belt of the UP"
Gladstone: City of Gladstone; information on municipal administration, operations, parks, recreation, industrial park; Gladstone is in the central UP and on the Little Bay de Noc on Lake Michigan; notable for its role as a "year round playground," and its boat harbor at Van Cleve Park
Hancock: City of Hancock; municipal information, tourism; Hancock is on the north side of the Portage ship canal, connected by the Portage Canal Life Bridge to the city of Houghton to the south; Hancock is notable for its strong Finnish heritage, its founding during the copper mining boom of the 19th century and its Quincy Mine; its hilly streets overlooking the Portage are the steepest streets I've ever bicycled on
Hannahville: Hannahville Indian Community Tribe of Potawatomi Indians; in the central UP west of Escanaba; the tribe is notable as the operators of the Island Resort and Casino in Harris and as the largest employer in Menominee County and the 2nd largest employer in Delta County
Houghton: City of Houghton; municipal information, visitor information, city Web sites; Houghton is on the Portage canal in the northern part of the UP on the Keweenaw Peninsula; notable for its historic role in the 19th century copper mining boom and as home to Michigan Technological University
Iron Mtn: City of Iron Mountain
Ironwood: City of Ironwood
Ishpeming: City of Ishpeming; Ishpeming is in the north central UP; notable for its role in iron mining and as site of the US National Ski Hall of Fame & Museum
Keweenaw Indian: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community; tribal information; operators of Ojibwa Casinos and other businesses; Baraga
Kingsford: City of Kingsford; Kingsford is in Dickinson County, next to Iron Mountain; Kingsford is notable for Henry Ford's choice of the area for sawmills and manufacturing facilities for wooden components of Ford automobiles in the early 20th century; waste wood generated by the sawmills for products included charcoal briquettes, which, after Ford left in 1951, became known as Kingsford charcoal briquettes, a well-known brand, which are now made elsewhere
Kinross: Kinross Township; Kinross Charter Township and Kincheloe Community; township, business, and visitor information; Kinross is in the eastern UP, 32 kilometers south of Sault Ste. Marie; Kincheloe is a former US Air Force base, now an airport
L'Anse: L'Anse Township
Lake Linden: Village of Lake Linden; Lake Linden is on the Keweenaw Peninsula, north of Houghton/Hancock; Lake Linden is the home of the Houghton Country Historical Museum
Laurium: Village of Laurium
Mackinac Island: City of Mackinac Island; a city on an Island that has a fort from 1790
Manistique: City of Manistique; known for its lumber and paper mill operations
Marquette: City of Marquette; on Lake Superior, Marquette grew as a port for Marquette Iron Range ore shipping
Menominee: City sof Menominee; municipal information; Menominee is the southernmost city of the UP, right at the UP's southern tip where it meets Wisconsin; Menominee is notable as the seat of Menominee County and its marina
Munising: City of Munising
Negaunee: City of Negaunee; city just off Lake Superior known for its iron mining; ski jumping competition at Suicide Hill
Newberry: Village of Newberry
Norway: City of Norway; municipal information; Norway is east of Iron Mountain in Dickinson County; Norway is historically notable for its Norway Mine and as a station on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad
Ontonagon: Village of Ontonagon
Powers-Spalding: Spalding Township and the Village of Powers
St Ignace: City of St Ignace
Sault Canada: Corporation of the City of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada; official city site
Sault Ste Marie: City of Sault Ste Marie; municipal information; "The Soo" as Yoopers call it (always with the definite article "the"), is on the eastern end of the UP and is the oldest permanent settlement in Michigan, dating to 1668; with its namesake city across the International Bridge in Ontario, Canada, the Soo area is the most populous part of the UP (approximately 100,000 people live in the Soo area) and a destination for many visitors; the Soo is the seat of Chippewa County; attractions include the Soo Locks, International Bridge
Sault Tribe: Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians; community information; the Sault Tribe has its roots in the Anishinabeg people who lived near the St. Mary's River and who traded with in the 1660's; today, the tribe has members throughout Michigan; satellite offices in St. Ignace, Manistique, Escanaba, Munising, and Hessel for tribal membership services; operators of casinos and other businesses
South Range: Village of South Range; South Range is in the Keweenaw southwest of Houghton on highway M26; cooperating community in the Keweenaw National Historical Park
Stephenson: City of Stephenson; Stephenson is in the southern UP, in Menominee County; grew as a stop on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Wakefield: City of Wakefield

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