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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
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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
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:
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- Calvin |
township |
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- Cassopolis
(County
Seat) |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Dowagiac |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Edwardsburg |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Howard |
township |
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- Jefferson |
township |
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- LaGrange |
township |
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- Marcellus |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Milton |
township |
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- Newberg |
township |
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- Ontwa |
township |
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- Penn |
township |
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- Pokagon |
township |
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- Porter |
township |
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- Silver Creek |
township |
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- Union |
township |
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- Vandalia |
village |
Incorporated Area |
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- Volinia |
township |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our 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." |
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Penn Foster High School
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