White Pine, MI

White Pine is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Ontonagon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2020 census counted 339 residents. White Pine is located within Carp Lake Township. Much of White Pine was developed in the 1950s as a company town for miners at the White Pine mine. The short version is that White Pine carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on White Pine: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Mining companies in Michigan often built and leased housing to workers so that miners could live adjacent to mine operations. White Pine was a station on the Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul Railway. Wilcox, a mining engineer, found mass copper in the Mineral River and formed the White Pine Copper Company to mine it.