Mohawk is an

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and

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(CDP) in the

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. Located in

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, 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 and Eagle River designations. Mohawk is centered along U.S. Highway 41 just north of the village of Ahmeek in the

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. 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 a white quartz Matrix (geology), matrix. It has a Mohs ...

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

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. Culturally, the majority of its population has

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ancestry (17.2%), though

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(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

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