Community in Gogebic County
Watersmeet
- County
- Gogebic County
Watersmeet is an unincorporated community (a Census-designated place) at the junction of US-2 and US-45 in Watersmeet township, Gogebic County, on the far southern edge of Michigan's western Upper Peninsula about 8 miles north of the Wisconsin line. The surrounding township counts 1,456 residents (2020 Census) across roughly 255 square miles of land laced with lakes and Ottawa National Forest. Governance is a general-law township run by an elected board (Supervisor Yvonne Clark, Clerk Laura Mans, Treasurer Paul Kemppainen, and two trustees), and the sole school is the K-12 Watersmeet Township School, home of the nationally famous 'Nimrods.' The economy leans on the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians (whose Northern Waters Casino Resort and health center are here) and on four-season outdoor tourism anchored by the 18,327-acre Sylvania Wilderness and the Ottawa National Forest.
What the records show
- Gogebic County holds 291 named lakes and flowages via prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com
- Name: Watersmeet via www2.census.gov
- Inctype: unincorporated community (CDP) via www2.census.gov
- County: Gogebic County, Michigan via www2.census.gov
- Fips cdp: 2684360 via www2.census.gov
- Form: general-law township board via watersmeet.us
- Supervisor: Yvonne Clark via watersmeet.us
- Clerk: Laura Mans via watersmeet.us
In memory, from Watersmeet
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