Home Town USA! Quinnesec, Michigan!

My home town State Of Michigan, USA

Quinnesec, Michigan USA
Quinnesec is located in the Southeast corner of Dickinson County, Michigan.
The Local Government in these parts is known as Brietung Township. It is border by Iron Mountain & Kingsford, Michigan on the West.
Norway, Michigan on the East. The Menominee River and Niagara, Wisconsin on the South. The North side of town is mostly wooded area and lots of small lakes. there are no schools in town, the school kids are bused to Kingsford Schools, which is combined with Quinnesec to form Brietung School District. The Kingsford High School is known as the
"Kingsford Flivers". They have an excellent football program. Kingsford won the Michigan State Football Championship for their class in 1993, They played for the State Championship in 1996 but lost. There is only traffic light in town, on US2 by the local post office. However there is one just west of town at the junction of US2 & US141. Speeders and traffic light runners Beware the local police watch that intersection closely and like to give you citations
This Is A Map Of
Quinnesec, Michigan!
Map Of Quinnesec, Michigan USA

Dickinson County, Michigan
Dickinson County is Michigan's newest county. Special legistrastion took place at the State Capitol in Lansing to create it in 1896. It was created from parts of Marquette, Menominee, and Iron Counties, to form a more central point of local government.
The major Cities in Dickinson County are Iron Mountain the county seat. Kingsford, Norway, Sagola.
The Major employers are Champion Papers in Quinnesec, Khoury Mfg. inc. (where I work) Grede Mills, Foley-Marten in Kingsford. Mead Paper wood Products & Aspen Lumber in Sagola. The Wisconsin Central is the local rail service.There is a lot of small locally owned businesses, Quite a few Motels such as Days Inn, Holiday Inn and locally runned motels.There are quite a few cafes and Fast Food outlets in the county.
there is also a small airport named Ford airport. Ford Motor company operated a plant in Kings ford until the early 1950's in Kingsford. All that remains today, is the Water Tank & duo Smoke stacks.
Dickinson County is border on the north by Marquette County, on the East by Marquette County & Menominee County, on the South by by the Menominee River State Line of Michigan - Wisconsin, east by the Menominee River and Iron County.
The Major highways are US2, US141, Michigan State Road 95
& Michigan State Road 69.
Iron Mountain is also the home of the second largest population of Brown Bats in the U.S., they live in an old mine shaft call Millies hill on Iron Mountains east side. You can observe them from late April though October at dusk & dawn when Bats are feeding themselves.
These are maps of
Dickinson County,
Michigan 'USA'
Iron Mountain, Michigan map