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Port Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County. [4] The population was 28,983 at the 2020 census. The city is bordered on the west by Port Huron Township, but the two are administered autonomously. Port Huron is located along the source of the St. Clair River at the southern end of Lake Huron.
Port Huron Charter Township is a charter township of St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,792 at the 2020 Census . [ 3 ] The city of Port Huron is adjacent to the township.
The county seat is Port Huron, located at the north end of the St. Clair River at Lake Huron. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The county was created September 10, 1820, and its government was organized in 1821. [ 1 ] It is located northeast of Detroit .
The Port Huron area is one of oldest European settlements in the state of Michigan, first settled by French colonists. Colonial-era forts such as Fort Gratiot (north of Port Huron) and Fort Sinclair (near present-day St. Clair) were built along the St. Clair River.
The 1830s saw a quick jump in land prices around Port Huron, as well as a substantial influx of new residents. By 1840, Port Huron had over 1000 citizens. It was organized into a village in 1849, and into a city in 1857, and by 1864, over 4000 people lived in Port Huron, with the increase in economic development led primarily by the lumber trade.
Map of Michigan, having numbering plan area 810 highlighted in green. Area code 810 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the east-central part in the U.S. state of Michigan. The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises the cities of Flint, Lapeer, Port Huron, and the southern portion of the Thumb.
Between Port Huron and Port Austin it is the north–south highway was formerly US 25 before the designation was removed. Between Port Austin and Bay City it is an east–west route that appeared on some maps as US 25 and on some maps as M-25. Since the 1970s, when all of US 25 was deleted north of Cincinnati, Ohio, it is entirely signed as M-25.
The Black River Canal in northern Port Huron extends east into Lake Huron near Krafft Road. The river rises in northern Sanilac County , near the boundary with Huron County , and its 711-square-mile (1,840 km 2 ) [ 3 ] drainage basin covers most of the central and southern portions of Sanilac County, most of northern St. Clair County , and ...