Country United States County Ontonagon Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) Area 12.96 km² Zip code 49971 Local time Sunday 2:40 AM | State Michigan Township Carp Lake GNIS feature ID 1622143 Elevation 274 m Population 474 (2010) Area code 906 | |
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Weather 1°C, Wind S at 5 km/h, 95% Humidity | ||
White Pine is an unincorporated community census-designated place in Ontonagon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, its population was 474.
Map of White Pine, MI 49953, USA
White Pine is located at 46°45′14″N 89°35′03″W in Carp Lake Township between Bergland, Michigan and Silver City, Michigan, and east of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. The Copper Range Company operated a copper mine in White Pine.
It was a station on the Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul Railway. Thomas H. Wilcox, a mining engineer, found mass copper in the Mineral River and formed the White Pine Copper Company to mine it. The settlement was given a post office as "White Pine Mine" in June 1915.
The White Pine ZIP code 49971 is a post office box only office serving two noncontiguous areas in Carp Lake Township.