City in Gogebic County
Wakefield
- Population
- 1,704
- County
- Gogebic County
- Location
- 46.477, -89.933
Wakefield is an incorporated city in Gogebic County in Michigan's western Upper Peninsula, about 10 miles east of the Wisconsin border and roughly 10 miles east of Ironwood. It covers about 7.9 square miles of land wrapped around Sunday Lake; the 2020 Census counted 1,702 residents (down from a 1920 mining-boom peak of 4,151), with an ACS median household income near $55,759 and a median age near 52.8. Governed by a Mayor (Dale White) and City Council under a city-manager structure and served by the Wakefield-Marenisco School District (236 students, 2024-2025), Wakefield trades on an iron-mining and forestry heritage now reoriented to four-season tourism in 'Big Snow Country', anchored by Sunday Lake, Eddy Park, and the Snowriver (former Indianhead Mountain) ski resort. Population and income figures here are census-derived via secondary repackagers and flagged, because the census.gov API required a key and data.census.gov was JavaScript-rendered during research.
What the records show
- Population: 1704 (2020 census), 1681 (latest official estimate) via www2.census.gov
- Area: 7.872 sq mi land, 0.566 sq mi water, at 46.476904, -89.93343 via www2.census.gov
- Gogebic County holds 291 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Named lakes nearest this town: Sunday Lake via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: City of Wakefield via www2.census.gov
- Inctype: city via www2.census.gov
- County: Gogebic County, Michigan via www2.census.gov
- Fips: 2682780 via www2.census.gov
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