Brutus, MI

Brutus is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 202 residents. Brutus is located within Maple River Township. Brutus was established with the building of an inn called the Brutus House in 1874. In northern parts, the district is Pellston Public Schools. The short version is that Brutus carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Brutus: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Brutus is located in eastern Emmet County, near the center of Maple River Township. Petoskey, the Emmet County seat, is 14 miles southbound on US 31.