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Cadillac
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city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Wexford
- Incorporated
- 1875 (Clam Lake village), 1877 (city of Cadillac)
- Type
- Council–manager
- Mayor
- David Powell
- Manager
- Marcus Peccia
- Clerk
- Sandra Wasson
- Total
- 8.94 sq mi (23.16 km )
- Land
- 7.08 sq mi (18.34 km )
- Water
- 1.86 sq mi (4.82 km )
- Elevation
- 1,309 ft (399 m)
- Density
- 1,464.8/sq mi (565.56/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Fips code
- 26-12320
- Website
- cadillac-mi .net
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Cadillac
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wexford County
- Population
- 10371
- Area
- 23.381669
- Elevation
- 399
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Wexford County
- Shares border with
- Mesick
- Official website
- www.cadillac-mi.net
- Image
- Downtown Pic 02.jpg
- Households
- 4507
- Dialing code
- 231
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- twinned administrative body
- Rovaniemi
- Commons category
- Cadillac, Michigan
- postal code
- 49601
- different from
- Cadillac
- inception
- 1877-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 20.6431
- per capita income
- 23925
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Cadillac (/ˈkædəlæk/ KAD-ə-lak) is a city in and seat of government of Wexford County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,371 at the 2020 census, making it the second most-populated city in the Northern Michigan region, after Traverse City.
Cadillac was settled as early as 1871 and formerly known as the village of Clam Lake before incorporating as a city in 1877. The city is located upon the shores of Lake Cadillac, connected by the Clam Lake Canal to Lake Mitchell. The Clam River, which begins in Cadillac, is part of the Muskegon River watershed. Cadillac is the junction of three major highways: US Highway 131, M-55, and M-115. The geographic center of Michigan is approximately five miles (8.0 km) north-northwest of Cadillac. Cadillac is the primary city of the Cadillac micropolitan area, which includes all of Wexford County and Missaukee County to the east, and had population of 48,725 at the 2020 census.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cadillac” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.