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Place Name
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Bad Axe
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Capital Of
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Huron County
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Population
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3,484 (1990)
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Location
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Huron County, Michigan (MI), United States, North America
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Latitude
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43°47'N
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Longitude
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83°00'W
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Bad Axe
, city (1990 pop. 3,484),  Huron co., E Mich.,
c.55 mi/89 km NE of Saginaw; 43°47'N
83°00'W. RR junction and trade center for agr. area (beans, sugar
beets, grain; livestock); mfg. (machinery, plastic prods.). Municipal
airport. Nearby is 19th-cent. Jewish agr. colony of Palestine, which
failed. Settled c.1860; inc. as village 1885, as city 1905.
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