Cedar, Michigan


Cedar is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Solon Township, Leelanau County, Michigan, United States. Its population was 93 as of the 2010 census. Cedar has a post office with ZIP code 49621.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has an area of, all of it land.

History

Cedar was founded in approximately 1885 by lumberman Benjamin Boughey. He named it Cedar City because it was in a cedar forest. The depot on the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad continued to be known as Cedar City, long after the post office named simply Cedar was established on August 15, 1893.