page_title: Baraga County, Michigan
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Baraga County, Michigan / Geography
caption_attribution_description: The welcome sign for w:Baraga County, Michigan along w:U.S. Route 141. This file was uploaded with Commonist.
context_page_description: Baraga County is a county in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,860. The county seat is L'Anse. The county is named after Bishop Frederic Baraga, a Catholic missionary who ministered to indigenous peoples in the Michigan Territory.
  The L'Anse Indian Reservation of the Ojibwa is within Baraga County.
context_section_description: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,069 square miles (2,770 km²), of which 898 square miles (2,330 km²) is land and 171 square miles (440 km²) (16%) is water.
  The county is located in the state's Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior, at the southeast base of the Keweenaw Peninsula. The villages of Baraga and L'Anse are located at the base of Lake Superior's Keweenaw Bay. Point Abbaye projects north into the lake, enclosing Huron Bay. The eastern two-thirds of the county includes much of the Huron Mountains, including Mount Arvon—the highest natural point in Michigan at 1,979 feet (603 m).
caption: Entrance sign for Baraga County on U.S. Route 141
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