Munising Township, Michigan
township in Alger County, Michigan
Munising Township is a civil township of Alger County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of 2020, its population was 2,865.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 217.7 square miles (563.8 km2), of which 202.2 square miles (523.7 km2) is land and 15.5 square miles (40.1 km2), or 7.11%, is water.
Communities
The city of Munising is adjacent to the northwest corner of the township, but is an autonomous municipality. There are several historic locales and unincorporated communities in the township:
Camp Cusino, a minimum security state prison, has a Shingleton address one-mile (1.6 km) west of Shingleton.
Doty is a locale at the junction of the former Marquette and Eastern Railway (now the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad) and the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway (now the Soo Line Railroad) at 46°21′46″N 86°32′07″W. It was named after Marcus A. Doty, a manager for the Marquette & Eastern. The station is called Evelyn on the Soo Line.
Gogarnville was the name of a post office here from 1889 until 1893.
Hallston was a former post office and a station on the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway 46°23′00″N 86°40′36″W ; Elevation: 712 ft (217 m). The post office was established as "Anna River" on October 12, 1888, with Neil Steinburg as its first postmaster.
“Munising Township, Michigan” enters the record as township in Alger County, Michigan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Munising, Township and Michigan can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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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 Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5804325. VIAF identifies the subject as 136439892. The Library of Congress control number is no2009112217. Authority coordinates are 46.338, -86.571. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1889, 1893 and 1888.
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