Penokee is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in the township of

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, Ashland County,

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, United States. Penokee no longer exists but the old town used to be located south of County Highway GG a few yards west of the railway at the Penokee Gap.

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west-southwest of Mellen The community takes its name from the Native American work apinikan, which means "wild potato ground". It was marked on local property maps through 1992, and is still marked on

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maps.

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