Dollar Bay is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, suc ...

(CDP) in Houghton County,

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, United States. The population was 1,082 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Dollar Bay is located in the southwest corner of Osceola Township. The CDP extends west into Franklin Township as far as Goat Hill Road and south into Torch Lake Township. The community takes its name from Dollar Bay, a small inlet of Portage Lake, the water body that separates the

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from the rest of the

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. M-26 is the main highway through Dollar Bay, leading west to

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and northeast to Hubbell. According to the

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, the Dollar Bay CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 12.05%, are water.

Demographics

References

External links

* {{authority control Census-designated places in Houghton County, Michigan Census-designated places in Michigan