Interior Township is a

civil township A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States that is subordinate to a County (United States), county, most often in the northern and midwestern parts of the country. The term town is used in New England town, Ne ...

of Ontonagon County in the

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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, ...

. The population was 270 at the 2020 census. It was named for the Interior Lumber Company.

Geography

According to the

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, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (3.30%) is water. A large portion of the township is within the

Ottawa National Forest The Ottawa National Forest is a national forest that covers in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It includes much of Gogebic County, Michigan, Gogebic and Ontonagon County, Michigan, Ontonagon counties, as well as slices of Iro ...

Communities

*Agate 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 ...

on M-28, about eight miles east of Bruce Crossing. Agate Falls Scenic Sitebr>
on the middle branch of the

Ontonagon River The Ontonagon River ( ) is a river flowing into Lake Superior at the village of Ontonagon, on the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. The main stem of the river is long''The American Rivers Outstanding Rivers List'', Secon ...

is nearby. It was originally known as Agate Siding, after the spur from the

Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway The Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway (DSS&A; ) was an American railroad serving the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the Lake Superior shoreline of Wisconsin. It provided service from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and St. Ignace, Michigan, w ...

(now the

Soo Line Railroad The Soo Line Railroad is one of the primary United States railroad subsidiaries for the CPKC Railway , one of six U.S. Class I railroads, controlled through the Soo Line Corporation. Although it is named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Saul ...

) created in about 1890 to serve nearby mining operations. It was named for the

agate Agate ( ) is a banded variety of chalcedony. Agate stones are characterized by alternating bands of different colored chalcedony and sometimes include macroscopic quartz. They are common in nature and can be found globally in a large number of d ...

stone. *Calderwood was established in the 1880s around a lumbermill. It had a post office beginning in 1908. *Trout Creek is an unincorporated community on M-28, approximately east of Bruce Crossing and about five miles west of Kenton. The ZIP Code is 49967. The nearby Trout Creek is a tributary of the

. This was a station on the

(now the

Notable people

Dick Pole Richard Henry Pole (born October 13, 1950) is an American former professional baseball player and a former pitching coach. A right-handed pitcher, Pole was tall and weighed during his playing career. Playing career Pole was born in Trout Creek ...

, Major League Baseball pitcher and coach, was born in Trout Creek.

References

Sources

* {{authority control Townships in Ontonagon County, Michigan Townships in Michigan