LOCATION SERVICES Alger County Economic Development Corp. P.O. Box 461 Munising, Michigan 49862 Contact: Lois Brow Phone: 906/387-2516 County Seat: Munising POPULATION 1970 Census 8568 1980 Census 9225 1990 Census 8972 Median Age (as of 1990) 36.7 years LABOR FORCE (1992 average) Total Labor Force 5325 Employed 4850 Total Unemployment 475 Unemployment Rate 8.8% 3-Year Average 8.2% PRINCIPAL ECONOMIC BASE EMPLOYERS Firm Employees Product/Service Kimberly Clark, Munising 450 Specialty papers Alger Correctional Facility 315 Prison Timber Products Michigan 240 Hardwood lumber & veneer Superior Shores Nurses Home 111 Skilled nursing facility Munising Memorial Hosp., Munising 45 Health care Hiawatha Log Homes 30 Hardwood dimension & flooring Champagne Tool 17 Tools, dies, gauges Graves Lumber 17 Sawmill Trenary Home Bakery, Trenary 16 Bakery Richmond & Hawley, Chatham 10 Hardwood cants & ties Iverson Snowshoe 8 Snowshoes EARNING LEVELS Average Hourly Rate Classification Minimum Maximum Assembler - Light $4.73 $4.73 Clerk, General Office $5.90 $9.84 Forklift Operator $7.53 $8.40 General Laborer $8.27 $8.27 Inspector $7.71 $11.04 Maintenance, Building $8.12 $9.46 Mill Worker $4.73 $8.27 Painter $14.59 $14.59 Secretary $4.30 $7.96 Source: Based on Bell Telephone Co. community survey, adjusted for inflation to 1991 using Consumer Price Index. DISTANCE TO: Miles Kilometers Chicago 370 595 Detroit 400 643 Lansing 350 563 Milwaukee 285 458 Minneapolis 435 699 Toronto 630 1013 TRANSPORTATION Main Highways: M-28, M-67, M-77, M-94, US-41 Bus Lines: Truck Lines: 2 Rail Lines: Lake Superior & Ishpeming; Wisconsin Central Ports: None Airports: Hanley Field; Grand Marais; Marquette (50 miles) Airlines: American Eagle, Great Lakes, Northwest Airlink CLIMATE As reported by weather station at Munising. January Average Minimum: 9 F./-13 C. Average Maximum: 24 F./ -4 C. July Average Minimum: 53 F./ 12 C. Average Maximum: 76 F./ 24 C. Growing Season: 106 days Days below 0 F or -18 C: 22 Average Annual Rainfall: 33 in./ 84 cm. Days above 90 F or 32 C: 4 Average Annual Snowfall: 148 in./376 cm. INDUSTRIAL SITES (As of January 1993) Community Sites Acres Hectares Industrial Parks Mathias Twp. 1 0 0 0 Munising 0 0 0 1 Munising Twp. 2 4 2 0 COUNTY TOTAL 3 4 2 1 Zero acres indicates less than half an acre or no information available. CONSTRUCTION PERMITS Residential Industrial Office Mercantile Units Value Units Value Units Value Units Value 1991: 0 $0.00 3-Year Average: 26 $0.88 0 $0.00 0 $0.00 3 $0.51 Values are reported in millions of dollars. A 3-year average value of 1 may indicate no construction activity in one or more of the last three years. NEW INCORPORATIONS Incorporations in 1992: 23 State Median: 68 Incorporation Rate: 256 State Median: 183 Incorporation Rate = incorporations per 100,000 population. PROPERTY TAX BASE (As of 1992) Agricultural Residential Industrial Commercial Other 1% 71% 3% 11% 14% County Total State Equalized Value: $122,591,163.00 County Average Tax Millage Rate (in 1991): 50.53 UTILITIES Electric Gas Telephone* Munising UP Pwr/WI Pwr. MichCon Hiawatha * D=digital switching; EA=equal access to interexchange carriers; see Source List note. WATER Gallons Liters Pressure Source Capacity Use Capacity Use (lbs./sq.in.) Munising Lake 20 5 76 19 30-90 Capacity and maximum use in hundreds of thousands of gallons/liters per day. SEWER Gallons Liters Type Capacity Load Capacity Load Munising Act. Sludge 20 7 76 26 Capacity and present load in hundreds of thousands of gallons/liters per day. MUNICIPAL SERVICES 1990 Master Public Library Community Phone Number Population Zoning Plan (Volumes) Munising 906-387-2095 2783 yes yes 12,585 ------- Fire Department ------- Police Community Class. FT Paid PT/Volunt. (Full-Time) Solid Waste Munising 6 19 5 Independent County Sheriff Officers: 8 Licensed Landfills in County: 0 Other communities in Alger County (1990 population for incorporated communities in parenthesis): Au Train, Au Train Twp. (1047), Burt Twp. (508), Chatham (268), Deerton, Eben Junction, Grand Island Twp. (21), Grand Marais, Kiva, Limestone Twp. (334), Mathias Twp. (563), Melstrand, Moline, Munising Twp. (334), Onota Twp. (244), Rock River Twp. (1279), Rumely, Shingleton, Traunik, Trenary, Wetmore EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES (1992-1993) K-12 Instruc. High Community School District Students Staff Schools Munising Munising Public 1118 48 1 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (As of Fall 1991) Name and Location Enrollment Bay de Noc Community College, Escanaba (60 mi.) 2255 Northern Michigan University, Marquette (45 mi.) 8652 MEDICAL FACILITIES Hospitals in County: 1 Total Beds: 40 Nearest Large Medical Center: Marquette (45 miles) Extended Care Facilities: 1 Total Beds: 106 Physicians (MDs and DOs) in County: 5 HOUSING AND CHURCHES (Housing as of 1990) Owner occupied: 2671 ( 80.%) Median Home Value: $39,200.00 Renter occupied: 666 ( 20.%) Median Contract Rent: $206.00 Churches: Catholic: 3 Protestant: 12 Synagogues: 0 Nearest synagogue is in Marquette (45 miles) RECREATION, ATTRACTIONS, AND EVENTS Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore; Hiawatha National Forest; Laughing Whitefish Falls State Park; trails (part of North Country trail network); 10 scenic waterfalls; recreational harbor facilities at Grand Marais and Munising on Lake Superior; Grand Island, Pictured Rocks Cruises; charter fishing boats. Devil's Log Slide; Au Sable Lighthouse; Lobb House Museum. Grand Marais Airport Fly-In (Sept.) COMMERCIAL SERVICES (As of 1989) General Building Contractors 4 Metalworking Machinery 1 Commercial Printing 0 Advertising 0 Personnel Supply Services 0 Computer and Data Processing Services 0 Legal Services 5 Accounting, Auditing and Bookkeeping 1 Retail Establishments 77 Wholesale Establishments 9 Hotel/Motel Rooms (as of 1986): 382 Television Channels: 3 plus cable Radio Stations: 1 Newspapers: Grand Marais Pilot & Pictured Rocks Review, Mining Journal (Marquette), Munising News, Porcupine Press FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (As of 1993) Offices Main Office in County First Northern National Bank Manistique 2 First of America Bank-Upper Peninsula, Marquette 1 MFC First National Bank Marquette 2 Peoples State Bank of Munising Munising 3 EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS BY INDUSTRY Earnings Employment ($ millions) 1985 1990 1985 1990 Total Employment 2571 3238 Total Income $74.25 $100.68 Earnings by Place of Work $39.10 $59.90 Components by Type: Wage and Salary 1860 2437 $29.49 $45.87 Proprietors 711 801 $6.57 $9.04 Farm 84 72 $0.73 $1.12 Nonfarm 627 729 $5.84 $7.93 Components by Industry: Farm 115 98 $0.89 $1.26 Nonfarm 2456 3140 $38.22 $58.64 Private 1963 2588 $29.60 $46.56 Agric./For./Fish. 39 69 $0.38 $0.70 Mining $0.11 $0.06 Construction 60 162 $0.69 $2.09 Manufacturing 621 848 $15.24 $25.57 Non-Durable Goods --- --- Durable Goods --- --- Transp. & Utilities 118 128 $2.20 $3.17 Wholesale Trade 46 53 $0.54 $0.97 Retail Trade 493 597 $3.98 $5.07 Fin./Ins./Real Est. 136 147 $0.93 $1.07 Services 449 583 $5.53 $7.85 Government 493 552 $8.62 $12.09 Federal 48 73 $0.99 $1.51 Military, Civilian 28 19 $0.28 $0.12 State and Local 417 460 $7.35 $10.45 Earnings by Place of Residence $37.57 $54.74 Zero values indicate confidential information or fewer than 10 employees or less than $50,000. Per Capita Income: 1985: $8,381.00 1990: $11,198.00 County Economic Profiles are prepared for the Michigan Department of Commerce (phone: 517/373-9808) by the Industrial Development Division, Office of Tech- nology Transfer (OTT/IDD), The University of Michigan (phone: 313/764-5260). Profiles are updated throughout the year. A list of data sources is avail- able from IDD. Revisions and corrections may be sent to IDD by electronic mail (All-in-1 ID: UNIVMICH), U.S. mail (2200 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2099), phone, or FAX (313/747-0036). Permission is hereby granted to reprint the information.
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