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Newaygo County
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county in Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- Founded
- 1840 (established), 1851 (organized)
- Seat
- White Cloud
- Largest city
- Fremont
- Total
- 862 sq mi (2,230 km )
- Land
- 813 sq mi (2,110 km )
- Water
- 48 sq mi (120 km ) 5.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 51,622
- Density
- 57/sq mi (22/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- newaygocountymi .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Newaygo County (/nəweɪɡoʊ/ nə-WAY-goh) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 49,978. The county seat is White Cloud. The county was created in 1840, and was organized in 1851. It was either named for an Ojibwe leader who signed the Treaty of Saginaw in 1819 or for an Algonquian word meaning "much water".
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Newaygo County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.