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Mecosta County

county in Michigan, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_michigan Q74686

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Michigan
Inception
1840[13]
Official website
www.co.mecosta.mi.us, www.mecostacounty.org[15][16]
Native label
Mecosta County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 43.640°, -85.320°[14]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Michigan[2]
Shares border with
Osceola County, Montcalm County, Isabella County, Newaygo County, Lake County, Clare County[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+1479
Population
40k (40k–43k, n=7)[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
More facts +10
Capital
Big Rapids[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Big Rapids[12]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Michigan/Mecosta County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Michigan
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108972
Named after
Mecosta[11]
Number of households
+16276
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/Mecosta County, Michigan
Per capita income
+23748
Water as percent of area
+2.8
🏷️ Also known as
en Mecosta County, Michigan en Mecosta County en Mecosta County, MI ar مقاطعة ميكوستا es Condado de Mecosta es Condado de Mecosta (Míchigan) fa شهرستان میکوستا fi Mecostan piirikunta fr Comte de Mecosta fr comté de Mecosta he מחוז מקוסטה hu Mecosta megye it contea di Mecosta ja メコスタ郡 ko 미코스타군 pl Hrabstwo Mecosta ro Comitatul Mecosta ru Мекоста tr Mecosta County tr Mecosta County, MI
🔖 Identifiers · 30
ISNI
0000000417902609
VIAF cluster ID
147757909
Library of Congress authority ID
n81091871
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Nisbett-Fairman Residences.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
19431
Ballotpedia ID
Mecosta_County,_Michigan
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Michigan/Counties/Mecosta/
FIPS 6-4 ID
26107
Freebase ID
/m/0njc3
GADM ID
USA.23.58_1
GNIS Feature ID
1622996
GeoNames ID
5001594
Show all 30 identifiers +18
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000977
HASC
US.MI.MT
INaturalist place ID
570
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.26107
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007550507605171
OBO Gazetteer ID
22225531
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791886
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1907323
Our Campaigns container ID
4025
Ringgold ID
375774
Taxonomicon ID
1806183
Topic's main category
Category:Mecosta County, Michigan
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039662
UMLS CUI
C3829142
Who's on First ID
102083129
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"MecostaCounty", "Michigan", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcr88wv4f7r4cbjhjTj4q
Yale LUX ID
place/772c0086-adb9-4334-8529-1c20fc0da56e
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
312 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Detroit 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 24
Big Rapids, Morley, Stanwood, Barryton, Mecosta, Canadian Lakes, Austin Township, Aetna Township +16 more
Shares border with 6
Clare County, Isabella County, Lake County, Montcalm County, Osceola County, Newaygo County
← Shares border with 6
Clare County, Isabella County, Lake County, Montcalm County, Osceola County, Newaygo County
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from Mecosta County, Michigan, Category:Populated places in Mecosta County, Michigan, Category:Geography of Mecosta County, Michigan
Capital 1
Big Rapids
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Big Rapids
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Michigan
Topic's main category 1
Category:Mecosta County, Michigan
← Capital of 1
Big Rapids
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Mecosta County, Michigan
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Michigan
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Summary

Mecosta County is a county of Michigan[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Mecosta County covers an area of {'amount': '+1479'}[24].

Related Entities

Michigan United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Mecosta County, Mic
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Mecosta County, Michigan.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States president"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3829142
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 22225531
    Taxonomicon ID → 1806183
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31546|batch #31546]]"
  3. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Area → {'amount': '+1479'}
    Capital → Big Rapids
    Named after → —
    Named after → Mecosta
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ NCI Thesaurus ID: C108972, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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