10 Facts About Upper Michigan

When Upper Michigan applied for statehood in the 1830s, the proposal corresponded to the original territorial boundaries.

Meanwhile, the people of Upper Michigan approved a constitution in May 1835 and elected state officials in late autumn 1835.

However, the 1908 revision of the Constitution of Upper Michigan specified that the west branch of the Montreal River was the proper border, which would have placed an additional 360 square miles of land on the Upper Michigan side of the border.

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is bounded on land by Wisconsin to the southwest and west; and in territorial waters by Minnesota to the west, Ontario to the west, north and east, and the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin extends into Lake Michigan east of the western Upper Peninsula.

Mount Arvon, the highest point in Upper Michigan, is found in the region, as well as the Porcupine and Huron mountains.

Related searches

In 1967, when the Uniform Time Act came into effect, the Upper Michigan Peninsula went under year-round CST, with no daylight saving time.

Federal censuses indicate that the population of the Upper Michigan Peninsula grew throughout the 19th century as European settlers moved into the region, then boomed around the turn of the century, and experienced gradual decline overall during most of the 20th century.

Upper Michigan Peninsula is rich in mineral deposits, including iron, copper, nickel, and silver.

Upper Michigan Peninsula is separated from the Lower by the Straits of Mackinac, five miles across at the narrowest, and is connected to it by the Mackinac Bridge at St Ignace, one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.

Residents of the western Upper Peninsula take on some of the cultural identities of both Wisconsin and Michigan.