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The City of Bad Axe is working on updating it's 5-year recreation plan.  As part of the process we are gathering input from residents through an on-line survey. Please go to www.badaxerecplan.com  to take the brief 5 – 10 minute survey.  We would like input from residents to gather ideas, hear comments, and listen to suggestions about recreational programs, facilities and parks in Bad Axe.  This includes everyone – even those of you who don’t consider yourselves “park users” – your opinions are still important.  Our goal is to get input from as many citizens as possible.

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WASTE INFORMATION

Welcome to the City of Bad Axe!

While surveying the first state road through the Huron County wilderness in 1861, Rudolph Papst and George Willis Pack made camp here and found a much-used and badly damaged axe. At Pack's suggestion, Papst used the name "Bad Axe Camp" in the minutes of the survey and on a sign he placed along the main trail. By the time Papst returned from the Civil War, the name was on the map.

Bad Axe was incorporated as a village in 1885 with Septimus Irwin, its first settler, as president; and it was incorporated as Huron County's first city on March 15, 1905 with Joseph Fremont as the first mayor. Bad Axe celebrated its first 100 years as a city in 2005. It remains the county seat and is the largest community in Huron County as well as a commercial center for the upper Thumb area.

Thank you for visiting our website. If you are unable to find what you are looking for here, please contact the appropriate department at City Hall (989)269-6479.

Note: City Hall hours; 8:30am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday, other special closing will be posted on the front door.