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Pentoga, Michigan

human settlement in Iron County, Michigan, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ20710231 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pentoga is an unincorporated community in Iron County, in the U.S. state of Michigan.

History

A post office was established at Pentoga in 1900, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1937. The community was given its name by the owners of a local mill. It stemmed from the name of a Native American chief's wife; her tribe had made their home along the shore of Chicagon Lake before selling it and moving to the Lac Vieux Desert Indian Reservation.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pentoga, Michigan” as human settlement in Iron County, Michigan, United States of America. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900, 1937—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pentoga, Michigan and human can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as human settlement in Iron County, Michigan, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20710231. Authority coordinates are 46.003, -88.494. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1900 and 1937.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Pentoga, Michigan”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pentoga, Michigan primary sources, Pentoga, Michigan archive and Pentoga research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Pentoga, Michigan”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Pentoga, Michigan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.