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About Ogemaw County
Ogemaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,770. The county seat is West Branch. The county newspaper of record is the Ogemaw Herald.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At a glance
Ogemaw County at a glance
- County seat
- West Branch
- Population
- 20,770 (2020)
- Land area
- 575 sq mi
- Founded
- 1875
Communities
Largest communities in Ogemaw County
- Mills Township3,973
- Skidway Lake3,082
- West Branch Township2,567
- West Branch county seat2,351
- Churchill Township1,543
History of Ogemaw County
Ogemaw County started as part of the Virginia Land owned by England. After the Revolutionary War, it broke up into smaller and smaller pieces. The county was originally created by the Michigan Legislature in 1840 from unorganized territory, but was absorbed into Iosco County in 1867. It was re-created in 1873, and was finally organized in 1875. The county's name is an Anglicization of the Anishinaabemowin word ogimaa, meaning "chief". Ogemaw's name came from an eloquent, respected Native American orator named Little Elk. One of the first settlements in the county was Ogemaw Springs, the genesis of lumbering operations in the county. The settlement of Ogemaw Springs ended when the lumber industry in the region ended. (Due to the lumber industry, railways were built to transport the lumber, and towns often sprang up along the tracks.
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