Mecosta
Mecosta County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 39,714. The county seat is Big Rapids. The county is named after Chief Mecosta, the leader of the Potawatomi Native American tribe who once traveled the local waterways in search of fish and game.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: County with 39,700 residents
- Description: county in Michigan, United States
- Also known as: “Mecosta County”, “Mecosta County, MI”, and “Mecosta County, Michigan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mecosta Morton Airport.
Mecosta Morton Airport
Aerodrome
Mecosta Morton Airport is a publicly owned, public use airport located 2 miles west of Mecosta in Mecosta County, Michigan. The airport sits on 12 acres at an elevation of 1022 feet.
Mecosta
- Categories: county of Michigan and locality
- Location: Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.6376° or 43° 38′ 15″ northLongitude
-85.3168° or 85° 19′ 1″ westPopulation
39,700Elevation
1,024 feet (312 metres)Open location code
86MPJMQM+27OpenStreetMap ID
node 2002312613OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
5001594Wikidata ID
Q74686
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Mecosta” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mecosta County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ميكوستا”
- Armenian: “Մեկոստա շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Mecosta”
- Basque: “Mecosta konderria”
- Bavarian: “Mecosta County, Michigan”
- Bavarian: “Mecosta County”
- Bishnupriya: “মেকস্তা কাউন্টি, মিশিগান”
- Bishnupriya: “মেকস্তা কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Мекоста”
- Catalan: “comtat de Mecosta”
- Cebuano: “Mecosta County”
- Chinese: “Mecosta Kūn”
- Chinese: “米科斯塔县”
- Czech: “Mecosta County”
- Dutch: “Mecosta County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Mecosta”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Mecosta”
- Finnish: “Mecostan piirikunta”
- French: “Comte de Mecosta”
- French: “comté de Mecosta”
- French: “Comté de Mecosta”
- Georgian: “მიკოსტის ოლქი”
- German: “Mecosta County”
- Gilaki: “میکوستا شأرستان (ميشيگان)”
- Gilaki: “میکوستا شأرستان”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מקוסטה”
- Hungarian: “Mecosta megye”
- Irish: “Contae Mecosta”
- Italian: “contea di Mecosta”
- Italian: “Contea di Mecosta”
- Japanese: “メコスタ郡”
- Korean: “미코스타군”
- Latin: “Mecosta Comitatus”
- Low German: “Mecosta County”
- Mazanderani: “میکوستا شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Mecosta Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mecosta Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mecosta County”
- Norwegian: “Mecosta County”
- Persian: “شهرستان میکوستا، میشیگان”
- Persian: “شهرستان میکوستا”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Mecosta”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Mecosta”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Mecosta, Michigan”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Mecosta”
- Russian: “Мекоста”
- Russian: “Микоста”
- Sardinian: “contea de Mecosta”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mecosta County”
- Serbian: “Округ Мекоста”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mecosta County, Michigan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mecosta County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Mecosta (Míchigan)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Mecosta”
- Swedish: “Mecosta County”
- Tatar: “Микоста (округ, Мичиган)”
- Tatar: “Микоста”
- Turkish: “Mecosta County, MI”
- Turkish: “Mecosta County, Mich.”
- Turkish: “Mecosta County, Michigan”
- Turkish: “Mecosta County”
- Turkish: “Mecosta ilçesi, MI”
- Turkish: “Mecosta ilçesi, Mich.”
- Turkish: “Mecosta ilçesi, Michigan”
- Turkish: “Mecosta ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Мекоста”
- Urdu: “میکوسٹا کاؤنٹی، مشی گن”
- Urdu: “میکوسٹا کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Mecosta”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Mecosta, Michigan”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Mecosta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Mecosta, Michigan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Mecosta”
- Welsh: “Mecosta County, Michigan”
- Welsh: “Mecosta County”
- Western Panjabi: “مکوسٹا کاؤنٹی”
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