Mentor Township, Cheboygan County, Michigan
township in Cheboygan County, Michigan
Mentor Township is a civil township of Cheboygan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 857 at the 2020 census.
Geography
Mentor Township is located in southwestern Cheboygan County and is bordered by Emmet County to the west. Interstate 75 passes through the northeast corner of the township but has no exits there. The township includes the unincorporated communities of Rondo, Haakwood, and Wildwood.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.9 square miles (92.9 km2), of which 35.7 square miles (92.5 km2) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 0.44%, is water. The Sturgeon River flows northward through the eastern part of the township, past Haakwood and Rondo.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 781 people, 317 households, and 234 families residing in the township. The population density was 21.8 inhabitants per square mile (8.4/km2). There were 455 housing units at an average density of 12.7 per square mile (4.9/km2).
“Mentor Township, Cheboygan County, Michigan” enters the record as township in Cheboygan County, Michigan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mentor, Township and Cheboygan can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6817606. Authority coordinates are 45.347, -84.667. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2000.
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