Marenisco, Michigan
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Marenisco is an
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and
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(CDP) in Marenisco Township, Gogebic County,
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, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a population of 254, out of a total population in the township of 1,727. The name of the community and the township was formed by combining the first three letters from Mary Enid Scott, the wife of E. H. Scott, a timber producer. The community is located in the western part of Marenisco Township, in the western part of Michigan's
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runs along the northern edge of the community, leading east to Watersmeet and west to
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Ironwood, Michigan Ironwood is a city in Gogebic County, Michigan, Gogebic County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, about south of Lake Superior. The city is on U.S. Route 2 in Michigan, US Highway 2 across the Montreal River (Wisconsin-Michig ...
, at the
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state line, is to the west on US 2. State highway M-64 passes through the center of Marenisco, leading south to the Wisconsin border. The community of Marenisco was listed as a newly organized census-designated place for the 2010 census, meaning it now has officially defined boundaries and population statistics for the first time. According to the
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, the Marenisco CDP has an area of , all of it land. The community is bounded to the east by the
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, which flows to
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in northeastern Gogebic County.


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Census-designated places in Gogebic County, Michigan Census-designated places in Michigan Unincorporated communities in Gogebic County, Michigan Unincorporated communities in Michigan {{GogebicCountyMI-geo-stub