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Otsego County, Michigan

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

 

County Seat: Gaylord
Year Organized: 1875
Square Miles: 515
Court House:

225 West Main Street
County Courthouse
Gaylord, MI 49735-1372

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Otsego is may be a Native American name meaning "place of the rock". However, an alternative theory is that it derives from a lake and a county in New York state, which are said to bear the name derived from a Mohawk Iroquoian word meaning either "clear water" or "meeting place."

 

Demographics:

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History

Otsego is may be a Native American name meaning "place of the rock". However, an alternative theory is that it derives from a lake and a county in New York state, which are said to bear the name derived from a Mohawk Iroquoian word meaning either "clear water" or "meeting place."

 

Set Off: 1840 as Okkuddo County. Name changed to Otsego in 1843

Organized: 1875.

Neighboring Counties:
  • Cheboygan County (north)
  • Montmorency County (east)
  • Crawford County (south)
  • Antrim County (west)
  • Charlevoix County (northwest)
     
Cities and Towns:
- Bagley township  
- Charlton township  
- Chester township  
- Corwith township  
- Elmira township  
- Gaylord (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Hayes township  
- Livingston township  
- Otsego Lake township  
- Vanderbilt village Incorporated Area
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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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