Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Frankfort, MI

Frankfort is a city in Benzie County, Michigan, sitting on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Betsie River, where the river widens into Lake Betsie.

Benzie County is the smallest of Michigan's 83 counties by land area, at just 321 square miles, and Frankfort is its largest city.

Frankfort had a population of 1,252 at the 2020 census.

At the 2010 census Frankfort had 601 households in 942 housing units, and its average household size was just 1.98 people.

Frankfort was incorporated as a village in 1885 and, after steady growth, had reached a population by the 1930s whereby it could become a city, incorporating as one in 1935.

Frankfort was chosen as Benzie County's first county seat in 1870 and held the title, at least in name, until 1876, before the seat eventually settled in Beulah.

Frankfort is one of the places claimed as the site where Jesuit missionary Father Jacques Marquette died and was buried in May 1675, though the limited records make the true site a matter of debate among historians.

In 1892 Frankfort became home to the first Lake Michigan car ferry, linking its harbor with Kewaunee, Wisconsin.

Ann Arbor Railroad car ferries carried entire freight trains across Lake Michigan from the Frankfort-Elberta harbor in Betsie Bay for 90 years, until the service ended in 1982.

The Point Betsie Lighthouse, just north of Frankfort, has been in operation since 1858, guarding the entrance to the Manitou Passage.