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About Crawford County
Crawford County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. Its population was 12,988 as of the 2020 census. The county seat of Crawford County is Grayling, the county's only incorporated community.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At a glance
Crawford County at a glance
- County seat
- Grayling
- Population
- 12,988 (2020)
- Land area
- 563 sq mi
- Founded
- 1840
Communities
Largest communities in Crawford County
- Grayling Township5,642
- Grayling county seat1,867
- South Branch Township1,638
- Beaver Creek Township1,515
- Frederic Township1,161
History of Crawford County
The county is named for Col. William Crawford, a Revolutionary War officer captured by Native Americans near Sandusky, Ohio and burned at the stake in 1792. Created by the Michigan Legislature as Shawono County in 1840, before being renamed in 1843 as Crawford County. "Shawono" was derived from an Ojibwe word, zhaawanong, meaning "from the south". The area was administered by other Michigan counties before 1879 when the county government was organized. Due to the location in rural northern Michigan, Crawford County's greatest economic growth occurred in the 1800s when lumbering clear-cut most of the extensive forests of Norway pine, birch, maple, beech and hemlock. With the trees gone, tourism became the center of the economy. In the 1870s Crawford County became a popular destination for recreational fishing.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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