County: Alpena (Formally Anamickee County)

Created from: Michilimackinac County and others (1840)

Boundary completed: 1881

Population: 1900 = 18,254  |  2000 = 31,314

Source: [Wiki] + others

Notes

This county is located on the edge of Lake Huron. Alpena bay is off the shore of the City of Alpena and serves as a refuge for lake ships and has many known underwater ship wrecks.

The current population of Alpena County (2020) is 28,907.

Alpena has one city (Alpena), and one village (Hillman, partial). It has eight townships.

Alpena is served by the Lake State Railway, formally the Detroit & Mackinac (and predecessors). It was also served for about 12 years by the Boyne City, Gaylord and Alpena railroad.

Time Line 

1840. Anamickee (now Alpena) created from Michilimackinac (now Mackinac) and Non-County Area 2 attached to Saginaw; Anamickee not fully organized, attached to Michilimackinac "for judicial purposes." (Mich. Acts 1840, ann. sess., no. 119, secs. 24, 35/pp. 199-200)

1843. Anamickee renamed Alpena. (Mich. Acts 1843, ann. sess., no. 67/p. 145)

1853. Alpena detached from Mackinac, attached to Cheboygan "for judicial and municipal purposes." (Mich. Acts 1853, reg. sess., no. 20/p. 19)

1857. Alpena fully organized, detached from Cheboygan; Alcona, Montmorency, Oscoda, and part of Presque Isle detached from Cheboygan, attached to Alpena "for judicial and municipal purposes." (Mich. Acts 1857, reg. sess., no. 65/p. 162)

1858. Alcona and Oscoda detached from Alpena, attached to Iosco; Otsego and Presque Isle detached from Cheboygan, attached to Alpena. All attachments were "for judicial and municipal purposes." (Mich. Acts 1858, ext. sess., no. 5, sec. 1/p. 15)

1863. Otsego detached from Alpena, attached to Antrim "for municipal and judicial purposes." (Mich. Acts 1863, reg. sess., no. 78/p. 119)

1871. Presque Isle fully organized, detached from Alpena. (Mich. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 398, sec. 1/p. 128)

1881. Montmorency fully organized, detached from Alpena. (Mich. Acts 1881, reg. sess., pub., no. 163, sec. 1/p. 160)

Source: [NL]