Greenland 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 ...
and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 counte ...
(CDP) in
Greenland Township,
Ontonagon County,
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
, United States. It is north of
Mass City. State highway
M-38 forms the northern edge of the community, leading northwest to
Ontonagon, the
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
, and east to
Baraga.
Greenland was first listed as a CDP prior to the
2020 census.
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History
The community of Greenland began in Section 26 of Greenland Township.Topographical Map of Ontonagon County, Michigan
Circa 1927. Standard Map Company, Chicago, Illinois. Accessed 12 Nov 2023.
Climate
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Ontonagon County, Michigan
Census-designated places in Michigan
Unincorporated communities in Ontonagon County, Michigan
Unincorporated communities in Michigan
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