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Mackinac County is a county in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan . As of the 2000 census , the population was 11,943. The county seat is St. Ignace . The county was formerly known as Michilimackinac County , and it was created as one of the first counties of the Michigan Territory in 1818. The county's name is claimed to be a corruption of the French term "Michilimackinac," which referred to the Straits of Mackinac area as well as the French settlement at the tip of the lower peninsula. See and compare List of Michigan county name etymologies , List of Michigan counties , and List of abolished U.S.
Michilimackinac County was created on October 26, 1818, by proclamation of territorial governor Lewis Cass . The county originally took up the Lower Peninsula of Michigan north of Macomb County and almost the entire present Upper Peninsula . At the time of founding, the county seat was the community of Michilimackinac Island on Michilimackinac Island, later known as Mackinac Island, Michigan . The county was reorganized in 1849 as Mackinac County. In 1882 the county seat was moved from Mackinac Island to St. Ignace.