Breitung Charter Township, Michigan

Breitung Township, Michigan
Charter township
Charter Township of Breitung
Location within Dickinson County (red) and the administered CDP of Quinnesec (pink)
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Coordinates: 45°48′31″N 88°01′47″W / 45.80861°N 88.02972°W / 45.80861; -88.02972
Country	United States
State	Michigan
County	Dickinson
Established	1876
Government [1]
• Supervisor	Denny Olson
• Clerk	Wendy Larson
Area
• Total	67.89 sq mi (175.83 km2)
• Land	64.27 sq mi (166.46 km2)
• Water	3.62 sq mi (9.38 km2)
Elevation	1,161 ft (354 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	5,831
• Density	91.1/sq mi (35.2/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code(s)	49801 (Iron Mountain) 49802 (Kingsford) 49870 (Norway) 49876 (Quinnesec)
Area code	906
FIPS code	26-10220[2]
GNIS feature ID	1625974[3]
Website	Official website

Breitung Charter Township is a charter township of Dickinson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 5,831.

The township is named after Edward Breitung, a miner and U.S. Representative from Michigan.^[4]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 68.3 square miles (177 km²), of which, 65.1 square miles (169 km²) of it is land and 3.2 square miles (8.3 km²) of it (4.70%) is water.

• The cities of Iron Mountain and Kingsford are in the southwest of the township, but are administratively autonomous.
• East Kingsford is a part of the Kingsford urban area, located in the township just east of the city boundary at 45°47′42″N 88°03′52″W / 45.79500°N 88.06444°W / 45.79500; -88.06444.^[5]
• Granite Bluff is an unincorporated community between Meriman and Randville at 45°56′22″N 88°03′13″W / 45.93944°N 88.05361°W / 45.93944; -88.05361.^[6]
• Merriman is an unincorporated community on M-95 about seven miles north of Iron Mountain at 45°55′03″N 88°03′20″W / 45.91750°N 88.05556°W / 45.91750; -88.05556^[7]
• Quinnesec is an unincorporated community, defined as a census-designated place in the township, just east of Kingsford and Iron Mountain.
• Skidmore is an unincorporated community.^[8]

As of the census^[2] of 2000, there were 5,930 people, 2,354 households, and 1,727 families residing in the township. The population density was 91.1 inhabitants per square mile (35.2/km²). There were 2,601 housing units at an average density of 40.0 per square mile (15.4/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 98.35% White, 0.03% African American, 0.44% Native American, 0.47% Asian, 0.12% from other races, and 0.59% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 0.44% of the population in 2000. By the 2020 census, its population was 5,831.

• Breitung Township, Michigan