Dakota Heights, Michigan

This article is about the community in Michigan. For other uses, see Dakota Heights (disambiguation).

Dakota Heights is an unincorporated community in Portage Township, Houghton County, Michigan, Michigan, USA, surrounded on three sides by extreme western Houghton, and on the fourth by Portage Lake (or, depending on definition of terms, the Portage Lake Shipping Canal).

Geography

Climate

Dakota Heights has a humid continental climate but winters are typically long and snowy with much lake effect snow.

Infrastructure

Transportation

Highway

Highway M-26 runs through the community.

Public Transportation

Houghton Motor Transit operates a demand bus that serves the community, but "curb to curb" services is only for Houghton residents, and as it is outside the city limits of Houghton rates with one terminus in Dakota Heights are higher.[1] However, there are no regularly-scheduled route buses operating in the community.[2]

External links

• Postcard of Dakota Heights
• Obituary of Mrs. Annie Reed Opie from the (Houghton, Michigan) Daily Mining Gazette, July 4, 1927
• http://emmap.mtu.edu/gem/community/planning/survey/survappa.pdf
• The World Knowledge Library Masterliness
• MTU Department of Social Sciences: "Graduate students present their research at a departmental poster session. Some of the titles included Quincy Second Hillside Edition, Home of One's Own, Dakota Heights, Dodgeville, and Coburntown"