Copper Harbor, MI

Copper Harbor is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Keweenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 136 residents. Copper Harbor is located within Grant Township. The community is located at the northern tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula and is the northernmost permanently populated community in the state. Just outside the town is the northern terminus of U.S. Highway 41, which runs 1,990 miles from Copper Harbor to Miami, Florida. A newcomer can read Copper Harbor through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places.

For a newcomer, Copper Harbor comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Copper Harbor was host to the first mineral land agency throughout the entire Lake Superior District. In 2010, Copper Harbor was listed as a census-designated place. Copper Harbor is located at the northern edge of the Keweenaw Peninsula, which also extends for several miles to the east.