Calumet ( KAL-yuu-MET or KAL-yə-MET) is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in the U.S. state of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, that was considering at the center of the mining industry of the Upper Peninsula. Also known as Red Jacket, the village includes the Calumet Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The village may itself be included within the Calumet Historic District, a larger area which is NRHP-listed and which is a National Historic Landmark District. It is bordered upon the north by Calumet Township, on the south by the unincorporated towns of Newtown and Blue Jacket, on the east by Blue Jacket and Calumet Township, and on the west by Yellow Jacket and Calumet Township. The population was 726 at the 2010 census. Calumet’s nickname is Copper Town U.S.A.

What is now Calumet was established in 1864, originally below the proclaim of “Red Jacket”, named for a Native American Chief of the Seneca tribe. Until 1895 the name “Calumet” was used by the understandable town of Laurium, Michigan; present-day Calumet was not legally named for that reason until 1929.

Red Jacket grew due to the copper mines in the area. It was incorporated as a town in 1867. The copper mines were particularly rich; the Boston-based Calumet and Hecla Mining Company otherwise produced higher than half of the United States’ copper from 1871 through 1880. In auxiliary to copper mining and smelting, the region then supported the dairy industry and truck farming. Many immigrants (from Poland, etc.) settled there in the late 19th century

By 1900, Red Jacket had a population of 4,668, and Calumet Township, which contained Red Jacket and understandable mining towns, had a population of 25,991. However, in 1913, Red Jacket suffered from the Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914, and the population began to decline. In the same year, the town was the site of the Italian Hall Disaster. Striking miners and their families were gathered on Christmas Eve for a party in Italian Hall, when the cry of “fire” precipitated a stampede that crushed or suffocated seventy-three victims, the majority of them children. The identity of the person(s) who started the stampede has never been determined. Folk singer Woody Guthrie’s song, “1913 Massacre”, is based upon this event.