Welcome to Portage Entry ...Portage Entry is located in the western region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP). Portage Entry is located in Houghton County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Portage Entry, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851. Portage Entry is 610 feet [186 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Portage Entry lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you leave Portage Entry and travel south, you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). Area Code for Portage Entry: 906 Communities near Portage Entry ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Portage Entry.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Portage Entry. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Portage Entry. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Portage Entry. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Portage Entry. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Portage Entry. See our Newspapers Page for Portage Entry. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Portage Entry ...Looking for more information about Portage Entry? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Portage Entry, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Portage Entry. Adding Portage Entry to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Portage Entry in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Portage Entry was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Portage Entry. Footnotes ...
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