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Mohawk is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allouez Township, Keweenaw County, on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.

Mohawk is the largest community in Keweenaw County, which is Michigan's least populous county with only 2,046 residents at the 2020 census.

The population of Mohawk was 388 at the 2020 census, the first census in which Mohawk was counted as a census-designated place.

Mohawk grew up around copper mining: after a lumberman found native copper in the area in 1896, the Mohawk Mining Company was formed in 1898 under Joseph E. Gay, and the village developed alongside the mine and took its name.

Mohawk is the namesake of mohawkite, a rare copper-arsenic mineral believed to be found only in the Mohawk Mine.

The Mohawk Mine also produced a large amount of native silver, especially in its upper levels, and in 1923 the Mohawk Mining Company absorbed the Wolverine and Michigan copper mining companies.

Mohawk is centered along U.S. Highway 41 just north of the village of Ahmeek, in the heart of Michigan's historic Copper Country.

Mohawk has its own post office with ZIP Code 49950, a ZIP that covers most of mainland Keweenaw County and also carries the Eagle Harbor and Eagle River place designations.

The Mohawk CDP covers only about 1.24 square miles at an elevation of roughly 1,014 feet, giving it a population density of about 315 people per square mile — dense by Keweenaw County standards.