Bad Axe, Michigan Bad Axe, Michigan Location of Bad Axe, Michigan Location of Bad Axe, Michigan Website City of Bad Axe,Michigan Bad Axe is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Michigan and the governmental center of county of Huron County positioned in the Thumb region of the Lower Peninsula.
The populace was 3,462 at the 2000 census, making it the biggest improve in Huron County and second biggest in the Thumb, after Caro (if Lapeer and St.
The town/city was established in 1905. The city's unusual name dates to the time of its settlement.
While surveying the first state road through the Huron County wilderness in 1861, Rudolph Papst and George Willis Pack made camp at the future site of the town/city and found a much-used and badly damaged axe.
At Pack's suggestion, Papst used the name "Bad Axe Camp" in the minutes of the survey and on a sign he placed along the chief trail. The first postal service in Bad Axe was established in 1870. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.26 square miles (5.85 km2), all land. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Bad Axe has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Climate data for Bad Axe, Michigan The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.1% White, 0.8% African American, 0.9% Native American, 1.5% Asian, 0.4% from other competitions, and 1.2% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,358 homeholds of which 27.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 36.8% were married couples living together, 14.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 44.0% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 42.9 years.
21.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.2% were from 25 to 44; 26.6% were from 45 to 64; and 20.5% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 97.57% White, 0.26% African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.58% Asian, 0.38% from other competitions, and 0.95% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,418 homeholds out of which 31.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 45.3% were married couples living together, 12.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 38.1% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.2% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 27.5% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $32,125, and the median income for a family was $42,650.
Bad Axe is served by Bad Axe Public Schools, which consist of: Bad Axe Elementary.
Bad Axe Middle School Bad Axe High School (the "Hatchets") The Bad Axe Elementary School is now positioned in the building that previously homed the district's Intermediate School.
Local airways broadcasts licensed to serve Bad Axe are commercial broadcasters WLEW-AM and WLEW-FM.
WIDL 92.1 FM, Cass City, Classic Rock The Thumb's Only Road for Pure Classic Rock WLEW 102.1 FM, Bad Axe, Classic Hits, Your Classic Hits Station WIOG 102.5 FM, Bay City, CHR/Top 40, The Hit Music Channel WQLB 103.3 FM, Tawas City, Classic Hits, Hits FM WKJC 104.7 FM, Tawas City, Country Your Favorite Country Hits WHST 106.1 FM, Tawas City, Religious, The Promise FM WLEW 1340 AM, Bad Axe, Country, The Thumb's Hottest Country Bad Axe and the northern thumb region are served by a daily newspaper, the Huron Daily Tribune and the Huron County View.
Only stations available on Comcast in the Bad Axe region are listed below.
WDCQ is the Thumb's only tv station, licensed to Bad Axe, and owned and directed by Delta College, near Bay City.
The station's analog transmitter was based near Bad Axe, but went dark in June 2009.
Allen James Babcock, Roman Catholic bishop; born in Bad Axe Lilian Jackson Braun, mystery writer; lived in Bad Axe Clark, Florida state judge and legislator; born in Bad Axe Clark, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, lived in Bad Axe Brad Guigar, cartoonist; interval up in Bad Axe Bob Murawski, 2009 Academy Award-winning film editor (The Hurt Locker); high school valedictorian from Bad Axe William Potts, who added the yellow light to problematic the modern, three-lens traffic light; born in Bad Axe "Bad Axe Chamber of Commerce".
Bad Axe Chamber of Commerce.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bad Axe, Michigan "City of Bad Axe, Michigan".
City of Bad Axe, Michigan.
Local History How Bad Axe got its Name "Profile for Bad Axe, Michigan, MI".
Climate Summary for Bad Axe, Michigan Bad Axe Public Schools > Home Official City of Bad Axe Website Bad Axe Chamber of Commerce Bad Axe, Michigan Municipalities and communities of Huron County, Michigan, United States
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