Faunus, Michigan

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Faunus, Michigan
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Faunus
Location within the state of Michigan
Coordinates: 45°53′33″N87°30′32″W / 45.89250°N 87.50889°W / 45.89250; -87.50889 Coordinates: 45°53′33″N87°30′32″W / 45.89250°N 87.50889°W / 45.89250; -87.50889
Country United States
State Michigan
County Menominee
Township Spalding
Elevation
958 ft (292 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code(s)
49873
Area code(s) 906
GNIS feature ID1617553 [1]

Faunus is an unincorporated community in Menominee County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. [2]

Menominee County, Michigan County in the United States

Menominee County is a county located in the Upper Peninsula in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 24,029. The county seat is Menominee. The county's name comes from an American Indian word meaning "wild rice eater" used to describe a tribe. The county was created in 1861 from area partitioned out of Delta County, under the name of Bleeker. When county government was organized in 1863, the name was changed to Menominee.

U.S. state constituent political entity of the United States

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory and shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders. Four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

Michigan State of the United States of America

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States. The state's name, Michigan, originates from the Ojibwe word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". With a population of about 10 million, Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area, and is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies.

History

A post office was established at Faunus in 1896, and discontinued in 1908. [3] [4] The community was named after Faunus, a god in Roman mythology. [5]

Faunus Roman horned god of the forest, plains and fields

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus[fau̯nʊs] was the horned god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile he was called Inuus. He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan.

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Faunus, Michigan
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Faunus, Michigan
  3. "Menominee County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  4. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Faunus Post Office (historical)
  5. Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 70.