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Manistee
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city in Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Manistee
- Settled
- April 16, 1841
- Total
- 4.53 sq mi (11.73 km )
- Land
- 3.28 sq mi (8.49 km )
- Water
- 1.25 sq mi (3.24 km )
- Elevation
- 663 ft (202 m)
- Density
- 1,908.9/sq mi (737.04/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 26-50720
- Website
- manisteemi .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Manistee (/mænɪsti/ man-iss-TEE) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located in southwestern Manistee County, it is part of the northwestern Lower Peninsula. Manistee is the county seat of Manistee County, and its population was 6,259 at the 2020 census. This makes Manistee the fifth-largest city in Northern Michigan.
Manistee is located on an isthmus between Manistee Lake and Lake Michigan, with the Manistee River bisecting the city as it flows west to the latter. Manistee is located along US 31, one of the major trunkline highways of the state.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Manistee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.