page_title: Houghton County, Michigan
section_title: Communities
hierarchical_section_title: Houghton County, Michigan / Communities
caption_attribution_description: English: Houghton County, MI census data map
context_page_description: Houghton County is a county in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 36,628. The county seat and largest city is Houghton. Both the county and the city were named for Michigan State geologist and Detroit Mayor Douglass Houghton.
  Houghton County is part of the Houghton Micropolitan Statistical Area, which also includes Keweenaw County, and was part of Copper Country during the mining boom of the latter half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.
caption: U.S. Census data map showing local municipal boundaries within Houghton County.  Shaded areas represent incorporated cities.
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