ISHPEMING, city, Marquette county, Michigan, U.S.A., in the northern part of the Upper Peninsula, 15m. from Lake Su perior, at an altitude of 1,400 feet. It is on Federal highway 41, and is served by the Chicago and Northwestern, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic and the Lake Superior and Ishpeming railways. The population was 10,500 in 192o but had fallen to 9,238 in 1930. It is in the heart of the Marquette Range iron district, and there are large mines within the city limits. The county in 1926 produced
gross tons of ore; gold, silver and marble also are found in the vicinity. The city has various manufacturing industries, with an aggregate output in 1925 valued at $1,844,629. Ishpeming was settled about 1854 and incorporated as a city in 1873. The name is an Ojibway word, meaning "high up."