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Chassell is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Chassell Township, Houghton County, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

The community sits on Pike Bay at the southwest end of Portage Lake, about eight miles south of Houghton.

Chassell is named for John Chassell, a New York businessman and farmer who bought farmland at the site in 1867; the spot was earlier known as Pike's Bay and then as Robinson.

John Chassell helped raise the capital to found the First National Bank of Houghton and served as its first cashier.

Chassell Township was organized on April 14, 1888, taking its name from the community.

Chassell grew as a lumber town, and in the early 1900s its Worcester Lumber Company operated what the township's recreation plan describes as the largest sawmill in the Great Lakes region.

Chassell was counted as a census-designated place for the first time in the 2020 census, which recorded 876 residents.

Chassell is known for the Copper Country Strawberry Festival, held each year on the weekend after the Fourth of July, and most of Houghton County's strawberry acreage is planted around Chassell.

The Chassell School Complex, including a 1917 elementary school, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2009, and the old school buildings now house a historical and cultural museum.