The Marenisco Township post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Gogebic Station (1887), Gogebic (1894) and Dunham (1902), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 455139 years
Founding year: the first Marenisco Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
What stands out about Marenisco Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Gogebic Station
1887–1894
Marenisco
1887–today
Gogebic
1894–1914
Dunham
1902–1911
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
DunhamEthelwoodGogebicHartleyMareniscoTheilersWellingtonWhite City
Gone or out of use
Dunham Post Officepost officeDunham StationlocaleGogebic Post Officepost officeGogebic Post Officepost officeGogebic StationlocaleHide-Away Village Landing StripairportMarenisco Landing FieldairportMarenisco Stationlocale
1cemetery inside Marenisco Township
Marenisco Township
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Marenisco Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Marenisco Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Marenisco is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Marenisco Township, Gogebic County, Michigan, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, Marenisco had a population of 179. The name of the community and the township was formed by combining the first three letters from Mary Enid Scott, the wife of E. H. Scott, a timber producer. The community is located in the western part of Marenisco Township, in the western part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. U.S. Route 2 runs along the northern edge of the community, leading east 27 miles (43 km) to Watersmeet and west 13 miles (21 km) to Wakefield. Ironwood, Michigan, at the Wisconsin state line, is 26 miles (42 km) to the…
Its first post office opened in 1887. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,727 to 455 (-74%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Marenisco Township, 1887 to 1955
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marenisco Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1955Marenisco sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marenisco Township.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
