Mohawk is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located in Keweenaw County, it is within Allouez Township. As an unincorporated community, Mohawk has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own but does have its own post office with the 49950 ZIP Code. The ZIP includes most of mainland Keweenaw County and also uses the

Eagle Harbor Eagle Harbor may refer to several places in the United States: * Eagle Harbor, a development on Fleming Island, Florida * Eagle Harbor, Maryland, a town * Eagle Harbor, Michigan, an unincorporated community and census-designated place ** Eagle Har ...

and Eagle River designations. Mohawk is centered along

U.S. Highway 41 U.S. Route 41, also U.S. Highway 41 (US 41), is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs from Miami, Florida, to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Until 1949, the part in southern Florida, from Naples to Mi ...

just north of the village of Ahmeek in the

Keweenaw Peninsula The Keweenaw Peninsula ( , sometimes locally ) is the northernmost part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It projects into Lake Superior and was the site of the first copper boom in the United States, leading to its moniker of "Copper Country." As o ...

. It is the site of the

Mohawk Mining Company The Mohawk Mining Company was a major copper mining company, based in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan, that was established in November 1898 and lasted until 1932. The company, between 1906 and 1932, paid out more than $15 million in shareho ...

, which conducted copper mining in the early 1900s.

Mohawkite Mohawkite is a rare rock consisting of mixtures of arsenic , silver, nickel, skutterudite and copper, with the formula Cu3As up to Cu6As, and the most desirable material was usually found in white quartz matrix. It has a hardness of 3-3.5 and ...

is a rare mineral that is believed to be found only in the Mohawk Mine.

Demographics

According to the 2020 U.S. census, Mohawk had a population of 388. In 2020, more than 90% of its population was

non-Hispanic white Non-Hispanic whites or Non-Latino whites are Americans who are classified as "white", and are not of Hispanic (also known as "Latino") heritage. The United States Census Bureau defines ''white'' to include European Americans, Middle Eastern Amer ...

, though

multiracial Americans Multiracial Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2010 Unite ...

constituted its second-largest racial and ethnic constituency; according to the U.S. Census Bureau, its multiracial population was White and Native American. Culturally, the majority of its population has English ancestry (17.2%), though German (13.9%) and Irish (11%) were the second and third-largest ancestries. Through the 2021 American Community Survey, the median age of its population was 38.4. As of 2021's census estimates, the community had a median household income of $47,188 and 23.8% of the population lived at or below the poverty line.

References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Michigan Unincorporated communities in Keweenaw County, Michigan Census-designated places in Michigan Census-designated places in Keweenaw County, Michigan