Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Marquette, MI

Marquette is the county seat of Marquette County and, with 20,629 residents at the 2020 census, the largest city in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Marquette was settled in 1844, incorporated as a village in 1849 and as a city in 1871, and is named for Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary who explored the Great Lakes region.

Marquette grew into a major Great Lakes port shipping iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range, and about 7.9 million gross tons of pelletized iron ore passed through its Presque Isle Harbor in 2005 alone.

Marquette has around 8,900 households, but only about 46% of its homes are owner-occupied — a renter-heavy pattern driven by its large student population.

Marquette is home to Northern Michigan University, founded in 1899 as Northern State Normal School, which today enrolls more than 6,500 students on a 360-acre campus.

Northern Michigan University's Superior Dome in Marquette is the world's largest wooden dome.

Marquette's 323-acre Presque Isle Park, a forested peninsula jutting into Lake Superior, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect behind New York's Central Park.

Marquette is one of the snowiest cities in the contiguous United States, averaging about 11 feet of snow a year, with lake-effect totals regularly topping 200 inches.

Marquette's Lakeview Arena won the Kraft Hockeyville USA contest in 2016, earning the title of America's most passionate hockey community.

Marquette's St. Peter Cathedral holds the burial place of Bishop Frederic Baraga, the famed 'Snowshoe Priest' of the Upper Peninsula.