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Cedar is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Solon Township, Leelanau County, about 10 miles northwest of Traverse City on the Leelanau Peninsula.

Cedar was founded around 1885 by lumberman Benjamin Boughey, who named it Cedar City for the cedar forest around it; the post office that opened on August 15, 1893 shortened the name to Cedar, although the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad depot kept the Cedar City name long afterward.

The 2020 census counted 102 residents in Cedar, up from 93 in 2010, and the whole CDP covers just 0.18 square miles.

Cedar is known for its Polish heritage - Polish families began settling in Leelanau County in 1868, and Cedar grew into one of the county's Polish farming settlements alongside Shomberg, Bodus and Isadore.

Every July since 1975, Cedar has hosted the annual Cedar Polka Festival, a celebration of the community's Polish roots, and the village is home to a Polish Art Center.

Victoria Creek runs through Cedar, passing under Kasson Street and through the Leelanau Conservancy's 380-acre Cedar River Preserve on its way to South Lake Leelanau.

The Cedar State Bank, founded in 1905, survived the bank holiday of the Great Depression in 1933 before closing later in the decade, and its building later housed the Leelanau Telephone Company.

Cedar's post office, ZIP Code 49621, serves most of Solon Township and parts of several neighboring townships - more than 3,100 people in the wider ZIP area at the 2020 census, far beyond the tiny CDP itself.