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Kalkaska County, Michigan

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

 

County Seat: Kalkaska
Year Organized: 1870
Square Miles: 561
Court House:

605 N. Birch St.
County Courthouse
Kalkaska, MI 49646-0000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

The name Kalkaska is thought to be a Chippewa word meaning flat or burned-over country.

 

Demographics:

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History


Set Off: 1840 as Wabassee County. Renamed Kalkaska in 1843

Organized: 1871

 

The first settler in Kalkaska County was an Englishman named William Copeland, who purchased land in the northwest corner of the county in 1855. The county was originally called Wabasee. The name Kalkaska is thought to be a Chippewa word meaning flat or burned-over country. Logging was the first important industry.

The discovery of substantial deposits of oil and natural gas resulted in the construction of a processing plant by Shell Oil Company in 1973 and a major economic boom in the community.

Neighboring Counties:
  • Antrim County (north)
  • Crawford County (east)
  • Missaukee County (south)
  • Grand Traverse County (west)
     
Cities and Towns:
- Blue Lake township  
- Boardman township  
- Clearwater township  
- Coldsprings township  
- Excelsior township  
- Fife Lake village Incorporated Area
- Garfield township  
- Kalkaska (County Seat) village Incorporated Area
- Oliver township  
- Orange township
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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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