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About Antrim County
Antrim County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,431. The county seat is Bellaire. The name is taken from County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Antrim County is home to Torch Lake, Michigan's deepest and second-largest inland lake. Torch Lake, famous for its clear and blue waters, is part of the Chain of Lakes Watershed, most of which lies within Antrim County. The county is bordered to the west by Grand Traverse Bay, a bay of Lake Michigan.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At a glance
Antrim County at a glance
- County seat
- Bellaire
- Population
- 23,431 (2020)
- Land area
- 602 sq mi
- Founded
- 1840
Communities
Largest communities in Antrim County
- Mancelona Township4,311
- Elk Rapids Township2,521
- Milton Township2,355
- Central Lake Township2,159
- Kearney Township1,780
History of Antrim County
Meegisee County ( MEE-gə-see) was separated from Michilimackinac County as an unorganized county in 1840. It took its name from a Chippewa chief who signed the 1821 Treaty of Chicago and the 1826 Treaty of Mississinewas. Meegisee also derives from the Ojibwe migizi, meaning bald eagle. The county was renamed Antrim County in 1843, one of the Irish names given to five renamed Michigan counties at that time, supposedly in deference to the increasing number of settlers of Irish heritage in Michigan at that time. In the text of the 1843 legislative act, the name was misspelled as "Antim". In 1851, for governmental purposes, Antrim County was attached to Grand Traverse County. Separate county government was organized in 1863. The county seat was originally located in Elk Rapids, but was moved to Bellaire in 1904 after 25 years of litigation. In 1950 its population was 10,721.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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