Houghton
Houghton and Hancock are a pair of small towns in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan, and home to Michigan Technological University and Finlandia University.
- Type: Town with 7,010 residents
- Description: county seat of Houghton County, Michigan, United States
- Also known as: “Houghton (Míchigan)”, “Houghton, MI”, “Houghton, Michigan”, and “Гоутон”
- Postal code: 49931
Places of Interest
Highlights: Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw and Portage Lake District Library.
Houghton County Courthouse
Courthouse
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Houghton-Hancock and Hancock.
Houghton-Hancock
Houghton and Hancock are a pair of small towns in the…
Houghton
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: City of Houghton, Houghton, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “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”
- Swedish: “Houghton, Michigan”
- Swedish: “Houghton”
- Tamil: “ஹோக்டன்”
- Tatar: “Гоутен”
- Telugu: “హాటన్”
- Thai: “ฮอกตัน”
- Turkish: “Houghton, Michigan”
- Turkish: “Houghton”
- Ukrainian: “Гоутен”
- Urdu: “ہاؤٹن، مشی گن”
- Uzbek: “Houghton”
- Vietnamese: “Houghton”
- Volapük: “Houghton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Houghton, Michigan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Houghton”
- Welsh: “Houghton, Michigan”
- Welsh: “Houghton”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hurontown and Sing-Sing.
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Highlights: Studio 13 and Huron Square.
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