{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Michigan, United States}} {{Distinguish|Alger County, Michigan}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Alger, Michigan | settlement_type = Unincorporated community | nickname = | motto = <!-- Images --> | image_skyline = | image_size = 275 | image_caption = | image_flag = | image_seal = <!-- Maps --> | pushpin_map = Michigan#USA | pushpin_label = Alger | pushpin_label_position = left<!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none --> | pushpin_map_caption = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = <!-- Location --> | coordinates = {{Coord|type:city_scale:100000_dim:20000_region:US-MI_globe:earth_source:GNIS|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{Flagu|United States}} | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Michigan}} | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Arenac | subdivision_type3 = Township | subdivision_name3 = Moffatt
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'''Alger''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|l|dʒ|ɚ}} {{respell|AL|jər}}) is an unincorporated community in Arenac County in the U.S. state of Michigan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Geographic Names Information System |url=https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/619941 |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=edits.nationalmap.gov}}</ref> The community is located within Moffatt Township. As an unincorporated community, Alger has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics of its own but does have its own post office with the 48610 ZIP Code.<ref>{{cite web |last=UnitedStatesZipCodes.org |date=2024 |title=ZIP Code 48610: Alger |url=https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/48610/ |accessdate=January 16, 2024}}</ref>
== History == Alger was established in 1883 as a station at the junction between the Michigan Central and Detroit, Bay City & Alpena railroads.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=John |date=2018-09-30 |title=Alger - an Old Lumber Town in Arenac County, Michigan |url=https://99wfmk.com/alger-michigan-arenac-county/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=99.1 WFMK |language=en}}</ref> A post office opened in the settlement on March 7, 1884. The settlement was platted in 1884 by John Stoughton Newberry and Russell A. Alger, the latter the namesake of the community and later the 20th Governor of Michigan.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Romig |first=Walter |title=Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=1986 |isbn=0-8143-1838-X |location=Detroit |pages=16}}</ref>
== Geography == Alger is located in the northwest of Arenac County, in Moffatt Township. The community is located in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
=== Major highways ===
* {{Jct|I|75|state=MI}} is a major north–south freeway that passes the community to the west. * {{Jct|M|33|state=MI}} is a north–south state trunkline highway with its southern terminus at I-75 immediately northwest of the community.
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Arenac County, Michigan}}
Category:Unincorporated communities in Arenac County, Michigan Category:Populated places in the United States established in 1883 Category:1883 establishments in Michigan Category:Unincorporated communities in Michigan
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