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Michigan Counties

The boundaries of the 83 Counties in Michigan have not changed substantially since 1897.

Cass County, Michigan

Cass County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Cassopolis
Year Organized: 1829
Square Miles: 492

Court House:

120 North Broadway
County Courthouse
Cassopolis, MI 49031-1302

Etymology - Origin of County Name

The county is named for the Michigan Territorial Governor, Lewis Cass at the time the county was created in 1829. Cass later served as the United States Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, thus making a case for including Cass County as one of Michigan's "cabinet counties".

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Cass County, named for territorial governor and Secretary of War Lewis Cass, and is a Cabinet county.

Sett Off: 1829

Organized: 1829

Neighboring Counties:

Van Buren County (north)
St. Joseph County (east)
Berrien County (west)
Elkhart County, Indiana (southeast)
St. Joseph County, Indiana (southwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Calvin	township
- Cassopolis (County Seat)	village	Incorporated Area
- Dowagiac	city	Incorporated Area
- Edwardsburg	village	Incorporated Area
- Howard	township
- Jefferson	township
- LaGrange	township
- Marcellus	village	Incorporated Area
- Milton	township
- Newberg	township
- Ontwa	township
- Penn	township
- Pokagon	township
- Porter	township
- Silver Creek	township
- Union	township
- Vandalia	village	Incorporated Area
- Volinia	township

County Resources:

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County Resources

The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."