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Calumet is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and it was settled in 1864 under the name Red Jacket, after the Seneca chief of that name.

The village was not legally named Calumet until 1929, because the neighboring town now called Laurium held the name Calumet until 1895.

Calumet carries the nickname "Coppertown USA" because it was once the center of Michigan's copper mining industry.

The Boston-based Calumet and Hecla Mining Company produced more than half of all the copper mined in the United States from 1871 through 1880.

Calumet had 4,668 residents in 1900, when surrounding Calumet Township held 25,991 people, but the village's population had fallen to 621 by the 2020 census.

The 2010 census counted 726 people in 376 households in Calumet, an average household size of just 1.93 people.

On Christmas Eve 1913, Calumet was the site of the Italian Hall disaster, when a false cry of "fire" at a party for striking miners' families triggered a stampede that killed 73 people, an event later memorialized in Woody Guthrie's song "1913 Massacre."

The Calumet Theatre, an opera house opened on March 20, 1900 and funded out of the booming town's treasury surplus, is a Michigan State Historic Site that still hosts local and touring productions.

Calumet is home to a unit of Keweenaw National Historical Park, established in 1992, and most of the village lies inside the Calumet Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District.

The tiny village covers only 0.20 square miles, yet it sits atop some 2,000 miles of underground mine shafts, drifts and stopes left from the copper era.