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About Alpena County
Alpena County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,907. The county seat is Alpena. It is considered to be part of Northern Michigan. Alpena County comprises the Alpena, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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At a glance
Alpena County at a glance
- County seat
- Alpena
- Population
- 28,907 (2020)
- Land area
- 1,695 sq mi
- Founded
- 1840
Communities
Largest communities in Alpena County
- Alpena county seat10,197
- Alpena Township9,116
- Sanborn Township2,084
- Wilson Township1,972
- Ossineke Township1,635
History of Alpena County
The county was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 as Anamickee County, (from animikii meaning thunder in Ojibwe) then renamed in 1843 to Alpena County, a pseudo-Native American word — a neologism coined by Henry Schoolcraft, meaning "a good partridge country." This was part of a much larger effort to rename a great many of the Michigan counties at the time. The Thunder Bay Band of Chippewa and Ottawa, the original indigenous inhabitants of the area, merged with the Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians in the mid-1800s under Chief Way-ge-maw-waw-be. The county was officially organized in 1857.
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