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Area code. 906. FIPS code. 26-26360 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1619865 [3] Website. Official website. Escanaba (/ ˌɛskəˈnɑːbə / ES-kə-NAH-bə), commonly shortened to Esky, is a port city and the county seat of Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan, located on Little Bay de Noc in the state's Upper Peninsula.
0631600 [8] Website. marquettemi.gov. Marquette (/ mɑːrˈkɛt / mar-KET) is the county seat of Marquette County and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States. Located on the shores of Lake Superior, Marquette is a major port known primarily for shipping iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range.
Upper Peninsula, Michigan. Coordinates. 46°09′N 87°11′W / 46.15°N 87.19°W / 46.15; -87.19. Governing body. Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Escanaba River State Forest is a state forest in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It includes forested lands in Alger, Delta, Marquette, and Menominee Counties.
The Escanaba River (/ ˌ ɛ s k ə ˈ n ɑː b ə / ES-kə-NAH-bə) is a 52.2-mile-long (84.0 km) [1] river on the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The name of this large river system and the community of Escanaba were derived from an Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indian word meaning “flat rock".
As of 2020, Marquette County is home to one remaining iron ore mine and one nickel and copper mine. [62] [63] From approximately 1870 to 1915, about 32 quarries mined Jacobsville Sandstone in the Upper Peninsula, particularly near Marquette and the community of Jacobsville. The sandstone was used in many buildings, both locally and around the ...
The County Road 557–West Branch Escanaba River Bridge is 75 feet (23 m) in length with a roadway width of 30.1 feet (9.2 m) and a complete structure width of 35.5 feet (10.8 m). [2] The structure is a steel stringer bridge, constructed of rolled I-beams supported simply by straight-walled concrete abutments on each side of the river.
Delta County is a county in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,903. [2] The county seat is Escanaba. [3] The county was surveyed in 1843 and organized in 1861. Its name originates from the Greek letter delta (Δ), which refers to the triangular shape of the original county [1][4 ...
M-35 (Michigan highway) M-35 is a state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula (UP) of the US state of Michigan. It runs for 128 miles (206 km) in a general north–south direction and connects the cities of Menominee, Escanaba, and Negaunee. The southern section of M-35 in Menominee and Delta counties carries two additional designations; M ...