Talk:Houghton, Michigan

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[edit] Micropolitan area

There should be a separate article on this, linked to from the Houghton, Michigan article. --Daniel C. Boyer 19:01, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

What are you referring to? If you mean the "Neighborhoods" section, I think that's fine as it is. If you are referring to the area around Houghton and Hancock, that may belong in the Keweenaw Peninsula or Copper Country article. -- dcclark (talk) 20:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
It is a statistical aggregation. See United States micropolitan area. The estimated population of the Houghton micropolitan area is 37,772 while that of the city was 7,010 in 2000. I'm not sure what boundaries the Census Bureau defined for the area. The entire population of Houghton County was 36,016 in 2000. I'm not sure it merits a separate article. I think a mention in this article (and perhaps in any other articles that are included in the micropolitan area) would be more than sufficient--I mean, what else is there to write about statistical aggregation? older ≠ wiser 21:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
O.k. I agree. It should be mentioned in this article but that is really all we can do with it, at least so far. --Daniel C. Boyer 14:14, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nickname

I've heard the nickname "Ho-Town" used for Houghton many, many, MANY times. And yet this addition to the page under city nickname was marked as vandalism. What constitutes a valid nickname, then? 66.227.149.242 01:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

My mistake, and my apologies - it looked like vandalism as it went by. Acroterion (talk) 02:06, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
No problem. It's kind of awful, though, isn't it? But I can guarantee over half of the students at MTU have heard it or used it. =)
While it is a nickname, I don't really think it fits the purpose of the "nickname" field in the city template. "Ho-town" is basically a local term, not anything which is used to refer to the city outside the Keweenaw (unlike, say, "Motor City" for Detroit). In other words, it's not really a notable nickname. I'd say, remove it or at least think of using one of the other nicknames ("Gateway to the North" or "Gateway to the Keweenaw" shows up a lot, I think). -- dcclark (talk) 05:31, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Houghton in Popular Culture

The references there are very obscure. I could not find much about this Gavin Ewart, besides he was English, and less about his book "Penultimate Poems". Does he really wrote about Houghton, MI? Tesi1700 (talk) 00:15, 10 March 2008 (UTC)