Community in Gogebic County
Marenisco
- County
- Gogebic County
Marenisco is a civil township (with an unincorporated community and Census-designated place of the same name) in Gogebic County on the far western end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. At about 311 square miles of land it is the second-largest township in Michigan by land area, wrapped around Lake Gogebic (the largest inland lake in the Upper Peninsula) and large tracts of the Ottawa National Forest, and it markets itself as 'A Town For All Seasons.' Its 2020 Census population was 455, down sharply from 1,727 in 2010 after the state closed the Ojibway Correctional Facility (a roughly 200-job employer) on December 1, 2018. Government is an elected township board (Supervisor Bruce Mahler, Clerk Donna Kenney, Treasurer Kathy Leonard, and two trustees), children attend the Wakefield-Marenisco School District, and the local economy now leans on outdoor-recreation tourism (fishing, hunting, snowmobiling) and forest resources.
What the records show
- Gogebic County holds 291 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: Marenisco Township via www2.census.gov
- County: Gogebic County, Michigan via gogebic.gov
- Inctype: township (with CDP) via www2.census.gov
- Fips cousub: 2605351560 via www2.census.gov
- Form: township board via marenisco.org
- Supervisor: Bruce Mahler via marenisco.org
- Clerk: Donna Kenney via marenisco.org
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