Muskegon County, founded in the year 1859, was named after Muskegon River running through county, from the Ojibwa/Chippewa word "mashkig" meaning "swamp" or "marsh". It has the county seat in Muskegon City. With a total area of 1460 sq mi, it consists of over 0.17 million people with a brilliant mixture of races including White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others with more than 63.3K households and 44.2K families.

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