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Houghton
City of Houghton

Houghton

Houghton and Hancock are a pair of small towns in the of the state of , and home to Michigan Technological University and Finlandia University.
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  • Type: Town with 7,010 residents
  • Description: county seat of Houghton County, Michigan, United States
  • Also known as: “Houghton, MI” and “Houghton, Michigan”
  • Postal code: 49931

Places of Interest

Highlights include Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw and Portage Lake District Library.

Museum
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The in Houghton, Michigan, is a non-collecting museum that houses changing exhibits about local cultural and natural history.

Library
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is a public library in Houghton, Michigan, which serves the city of Houghton and Portage Townships. The participates in the Michigan eLibrary and is a member of the Superiorland Library Cooperative.

Courthouse
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The is a government building located at 401 E. Houghton Street in Houghton, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Houghton-Hancock and Hancock.

Houghton and Hancock are a pair of small towns in the of the state of , and home to Michigan Technological University and Finlandia University.

Town
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Houghton and are a pair of small towns in the of the state of , and home to Michigan Technological University and Finlandia University.

Hamlet
is a small, unincorporated community in Franklin Township situated upon a slope, just east of on M-26 and across the Portage Lake Canal from Houghton.

Houghton

Latitude
47.12187° or 47° 7′ 19″ north
Longitude
-88.56901° or 88° 34′ 8″ west
Population
7,010
Elevation
643 feet (196 metres)
Open location code
86VH4CCJ+P9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153663752
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4996572
Wiki­data ID
Q12429
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Houghton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هوتون”
  • Basque: “Houghton”
  • Belarusian: “Хоўтан”
  • Bengali: “হংটন”
  • Bulgarian: “Хоутън”
  • Catalan: “Houghton”
  • Cebuano: “Houghton”
  • Chechen: “Гоутен”
  • Chinese: “Houghton”
  • Chinese: “霍顿”
  • Czech: “Houghton”
  • Dagbani: “Houghton”
  • Danish: “Houghton”
  • Dutch: “Houghton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هوتون”
  • Finnish: “Houghton”
  • French: “Houghton”
  • German: “Houghton”
  • Gilaki: “هؤتن (ميشيگان)”
  • Gilaki: “هؤتن”
  • Greek: “Χάουτον”
  • Gujarati: “હાવટન”
  • Hindi: “हौटन”
  • Hungarian: “Houghton”
  • Indonesian: “Houghton”
  • Irish: “Houghton”
  • Italian: “Houghton”
  • Japanese: “ホートン”
  • Kannada: “ಹೌಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хаутон”
  • Korean: “호튼”
  • Ladin: “Houghton”
  • Latvian: “Hoftona”
  • Lithuanian: “Hautonas”
  • Malagasy: “Houghton, Michigan”
  • Malagasy: “Houghton”
  • Malay: “Houghton”
  • Marathi: “हॉंगटन”
  • Mazanderani: “هاتن (میشیگان)”
  • Mazanderani: “هاتن”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Houghton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Houghton”
  • Norwegian: “Houghton”
  • Persian: “هاتن، میشیگان”
  • Persian: “هاتن”
  • Persian: “هاوتون”
  • Polish: “Houghton”
  • Portuguese: “Houghton”
  • Romanian: “Houghton, Michigan”
  • Romanian: “Houghton”
  • Russian: “Хоутон”
  • Serbian: “Хотон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Houghton, Michigan”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Houghton”
  • Silesian: “Houghton”
  • Sinhala: “හූටන්”
  • Slovak: “Houghton”
  • Slovenian: “Houghton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هاتن، میشیقان”
  • Spanish: “Houghton (Míchigan)”
  • Spanish: “Houghton”
  • Swedish: “Houghton, Michigan”
  • Swedish: “Houghton”
  • Tamil: “ஹோக்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Гоутен”
  • Telugu: “హాటన్”
  • Thai: “ฮอกตัน”
  • Turkish: “Houghton, Michigan”
  • Turkish: “Houghton”
  • Ukrainian: “Гоутен”
  • Ukrainian: “Гоутон”
  • Urdu: “ہووگھتون”
  • Uzbek: “Houghton”
  • Vietnamese: “Houghton”
  • Volapük: “Houghton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Houghton, Michigan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Houghton”
  • Welsh: “Houghton, Michigan”
  • Welsh: “Houghton”

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