Carney, MI

Carney is a village in Menominee County of the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 179 residents. The village is within Nadeau Township. Carney is part of the Marinette, WI–MI micropolitan statistical area. The through line in Carney is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Carney makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Carney began as a station on the Chicago and North Western Railway in 1879. The village was named for Frederick Carney, who owned a warehouse at the town site. Carney is in central Menominee County along U.S. Route 41, which leads south 34 miles to Menominee, the county seat, and north 7 miles to U.S. Route 2 at Powers.