Highways

• M-19
  M-19 (Michigan highway)
  M-19 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan. It begins northeast of Detroit at a junction with I-94 and runs northward to a junction with M-142 just east of Bad Axe in the thumb.-Route description:...
  
  
• M-25
  M-25 (Michigan highway)
  M-25 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan. The route follows an arc-like shape closely along the Lake Huron shore of the Thumb in the eastern Lower Peninsula between Port Huron and Bay City. It serves the lakeshore resorts along Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay and generally lies...
  
  
• M-53
  M-53 (Michigan highway)
  M-53 is a gateway route to The Thumb region of the US state of Michigan, carrying vacationers to the many cottages and resorts located on Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron in the vicinity of Caseville and Port Austin. This highway is also used to transport agricultural and manufactured products from the...
  
  
• M-142
  M-142 (Michigan highway)
  M-142 is a state trunkline highway in the Thumb region of the US state of Michigan. It is a "trans-peninsular" route in that it travels from Bay Port on Saginaw Bay to Harbor Beach on Lake Huron, thereby crossing the thumb peninsula.-Route description:...
  
  

Demographics

As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 36,079 people, 14,597 households, and 10,144 families residing in the county. The population density

Population density

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 was 43 people per square mile (17/km²). There were 20,430 housing units at an average density of 24 per square mile (9/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.0% White

Race (United States Census)

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, 0.2% Black

Race (United States Census)

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 or African American

Race (United States Census)

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, 0.3% Native American

Race (United States Census)

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, 0.4% Asian

Race (United States Census)

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, <0.1% Pacific Islander

Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...

, 0.3% from other races

Race (United States Census)

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, and 0.8% from two or more races. 1.6% of the population were Hispanic

Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...

 or Latino

Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...

 of any race. 39.3% were of German

Germans

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, 18.6% Polish

Poles

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, 7.8% American

United States

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, 6.7% English

English people

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 and 6.3% Irish

Irish people

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 ancestry according to Census 2000. 95.9% spoke English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, 1.3% Spanish

Spanish language

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 and 1.0% Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 as their first language.

There were 14,597 households out of which 29.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.6% were married couples

Marriage

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 living together, 7.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.5% were non-families. 27.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.95.

In the county the population was spread out with 24.20% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 24.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females there were 97.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.50 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $35,315, and the median income for a family was $42,436. Males had a median income of $31,950 versus $21,110 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

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 for the county was $17,851. About 7.3% of families and 10.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 9.8% of those age 65 or over.

Government

The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the
major local courts, keeps files of deeds and mortgages, maintains vital records, administers
public health

Public health

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 regulations, and participates with the state in the provision of welfare and
other social services. The county board of commissioners

County commission

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 controls the
budget but has only limited authority to make laws or ordinances. In Michigan, most local
government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street
maintenance, etc. — are the responsibility of individual cities and townships.
Huron County elected officials

• Prosecuting Attorney
  Prosecutor
  The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system...
  
  : Timothy J. Rutkowski
• Sheriff
  Sheriff
  A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....
  
  : Kelly J. Hanson
• County Clerk: Peggy A. Koehler
• County Treasurer
  Treasurer
  A treasurer is the person responsible for running the treasury of an organization. The adjective for a treasurer is normally "tresorial". The adjective "treasurial" normally means pertaining to a treasury, rather than the treasurer.-Government:...
  
  : Sherry Learman
• Register of Deeds: Sheri L. Stanton
• Circuit Court
  Circuit court
  Circuit court is the name of court systems in several common law jurisdictions.-History:King Henry II instituted the custom of having judges ride around the countryside each year to hear appeals, rather than forcing everyone to bring their appeals to London...
  
   Judge
  Judge
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  : Hon. M. Richard Knoblock
• Probate Court Judge
  Judge
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  : Hon. David L. Clabuesch
• District Court
  Courts of Michigan
  Courts of Michigan include:State courts of Michigan*Michigan Supreme Court**Michigan Court of Appeals***Michigan District Courts***Michigan Circuit Courts ***Michigan Probate CourtsFederal courts located in Michigan...
  
   Judge
  Judge
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  : Hon. David B. Herrington

Huron County Board of Commissioners

• DISTRICT NO. 1: John A. Horny
• DISTRICT NO. 2: David G. Peruski
• DISTRICT NO. 3: Clark D. Elftman
• DISTRICT NO. 4: Robert W. Haldane
• DISTRICT NO. 5: James G. Leonard
• DISTRICT NO. 6: Ron Wruble
• DISTRICT NO. 7: Kurt Damrow

(information as of November 4, 2008 Huron County Website)

Cities, villages, and townships

Cities

• Bad Axe
• Caseville
  Caseville, Michigan
  Caseville is a city in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 888 at the 2000 census. The city is surrounded by Caseville Township. It is home to the 10-day festival, a tribute to Jimmy Buffett's song "Cheeseburger in Paradise"...
  
  
• Harbor Beach
  Harbor Beach, Michigan
  Harbor Beach is a city in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,837 at the 2000 census, with an estimated population of 1,587 in 2009.-Geography:...
  
  

Villages

• Elkton
  Elkton, Michigan
  Elkton is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 863 at the 2000 census. The village is within Oliver Township, along the Pinnebog River....
  
  
• Kinde
  Kinde, Michigan
  Kinde is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 534 at the 2000 census.The village is located on the boundary between Dwight Township and Lincoln Township, with about half of the village in both...
  
  
• Owendale
  Owendale, Michigan
  Owendale is a village in Huron County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 296. The village is within Brookfield Township.-Geography:...
  
  
• Pigeon
  Pigeon, Michigan
  Pigeon is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,207 at the 2000 census. The village is within Winsor Township.-Geography:*According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land....
  
  
• Port Austin
  Port Austin, Michigan
  Port Austin is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 737 at the 2000 census. The village is within Port Austin Township.-Geography:...
  
  
• Port Hope
  Port Hope, Michigan
  Port Hope is a village in Huron County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 310. The village is within Rubicon Township.-Geography:...
  
  
• Sebewaing
  Sebewaing, Michigan
  Sebewaing is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,974 at the 2000 census. The village is within Sebewaing Township. This small community is known as the Sugar Beet Capital, due to the Michigan Sugar slicing mill located within the village and the yearly...
  
  
• Ubly
  Ubly, Michigan
  Ubly is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 873 at the 2000 census. The village is within Bingham Township.On February 25, 2004, a wolverine was spotted in Michigan for the first time in over 200 years near Ubly....
  
  

Unincorporated communities

• Bach
• Bay Port
• Filion
• Grindstone City
• Huron City
• Kilmanagh
  Kilmanagh, Michigan
  Kilmanagh is an unincorporated community in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is situated at . at the corners of four townships:* Brookfield Township * Sebewaing Township...
  
  

• Lewisville
• Parisville
  Parisville, Michigan
  Parisville is an unincorporated community in Paris Township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located about seven miles east of Ubly at ....
  
  
• Pinnebog
• Popple
• Ruth
• Rapson
  Rapson, Michigan
  Rapson is an unincorporated community in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan, located in what is popularly called the Thumb portion of the Lower Peninsula...
  
  
• White Rock
  White Rock, Michigan
  White Rock is a tiny unincorporated community of Sherman Township at the southeast corner of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is at the mouth of White Rock Creek on the shore of Lake Huron...
  
  

Townships

• Bingham Township
  Bingham Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Bingham Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 1,751. The township is named for Kinsley S. Bingham, a U.S. Representative and U.S...
  
  
• Bloomfield Township
  Bloomfield Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Bloomfield Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 535.-Geography:...
  
  
• Brookfield Township
  Brookfield Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Brookfield Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 914.-Communities:* The village of Owendale is within the township....
  
  
• Caseville Township
  Caseville Township, Michigan
  Caseville Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,723 at the 2000 census.The Village of Caseville is within the township on M-25....
  
  
• Chandler Township
  Chandler Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Chandler Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 501 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all land.-Demographics:...
  
  
• Colfax Township
  Colfax Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Colfax Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,954 at the 2000 census.- Communities :* The city of Bad Axe is on the eastern boundary and has incorporated land that had formerly been in the township....
  
  

• Dwight Township
  Dwight Township, Michigan
  Dwight Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 930 at the 2000 census.The village of Kinde is located on the boundary between Dwight Township and Lincoln Township, with about half of the village in both...
  
  
• Fairhaven Township
  Fairhaven Township, Michigan
  Fairhaven Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,259 at the 2000 census.-Communities:...
  
  
• Gore Township
  Gore Township, Michigan
  Gore Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 139 at the 2000 census.Gore is a small, wedge-shaped township, consisting of only four full sections and six partial sections on the shore of Lake Huron just north of the village of Port...
  
  
• Grant Township
  Grant Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Grant Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 833.-Geography:...
  
  
• Hume Township
  Hume Township, Michigan
  Hume Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 801. The township is named after the first white settler in the area, Walter Hume, who arrived and built the first house in the 1850s...
  
  
• Huron Township
  Huron Township, Michigan
  Huron Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 423 at the 2000 census.-Communities:*Huron City is an unincorporated community in the township on M-25 near the mouth of Willow Creek on Lake Huron at...
  
  

• Lake Township
  Lake Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Lake Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 996 at the 2000 census.Albert E. Sleeper State Park and Rush Lake State Game Area are both within the township.-Geography:...
  
  
• Lincoln Township
  Lincoln Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Lincoln Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 873 at the 2000 census.- Communities :...
  
  
• McKinley Township
  McKinley Township, Huron County, Michigan
  McKinley Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 503 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 20.7 square miles , of which, 20.3 square miles of it is land and 0.3 square...
  
  
• Meade Township
  Meade Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Meade Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 799 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.7 square miles , all land.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 799...
  
  
• Oliver Township
  Oliver Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Oliver Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,626 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.3 square miles , of which, 35.3 square miles of it is land and 0.1 square...
  
  
• Paris Township
  Paris Township, Michigan
  Paris Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 557 at the 2000 census.The unincorporated community of Parisville, formed in 1848, is one of the oldest Polish American settlements in the United States....
  
  

• Pointe Aux Barques Township
  Pointe Aux Barques Township, Michigan
  Pointe Aux Barques Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10 at the 2010 census.Pointe Aux Barques is one of the smallest townships in Michigan, consisting of only three partial sections at the tip of the Thumb on the Lower Peninsula of...
  
  
• Port Austin Township
  Port Austin Township, Michigan
  Port Austin Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,591 at the 2000 census.-Communities:*The Village of Port Austin is at the western end of the township on M-25 and at the northern terminus of M-53....
  
  
• Rubicon Township
  Rubicon Township, Michigan
  Rubicon Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 778 at the 2000 census.-Communities:* The village of Port Hope is within the township on M-25....
  
  
• Sand Beach Township
  Sand Beach Township, Michigan
  Sand Beach Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,470 at the 2000 census.The city of Harbor Beach is within the township, but is administratively autonomous.-Geography:...
  
  
• Sebewaing Township
  Sebewaing Township, Michigan
  Sebewaing Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,944 at the 2000 census. It was organized in 1853.- Communities :* The Village of Sebewaing is within the township....
  
  

• Sheridan Township
  Sheridan Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Sheridan Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 736 at the 2000 census.-Communities:*Appin Appin, Michigan was a settlement founded by people from Scotland...
  
  
• Sherman Township
  Sherman Township, Huron County, Michigan
  Sherman Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,165 at the 2000 census.- Communities :...
  
  
• Sigel Township
  Sigel Township, Michigan
  Sigel Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 576 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and 0.03% is water.-Demographics:As of the census of...
  
  
• Verona Township
  Verona Township, Michigan
  Verona Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,349 at the 2000 census.The city of Bad Axe is on the western boundary of the township, but is administratively autonomous.-Geography:...
  
  
• Winsor Township
  Winsor Township, Michigan
  Winsor Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,044 at the 2000 census.-Communities:* The Village of Pigeon is within the township....
  
  

External links

• Huron County economic development corporation/Community calendars, webcams and more
• Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, Bibliography on Huron County
• Huron County Historical Society (Michigan), Huron County, Michigan. (2001, Arcadia Publishing).
• Huron Daily Tribune
• Information about Michigan's Thumb