Houghton (; HO-tən) is the largest city and seat of government of Houghton County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located upon the Keweenaw Peninsula, Houghton is the largest city in the Copper Country region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Upper Peninsula, with a population of 8,386 at the 2020 census. Houghton is the principal city of the Houghton micropolitan area, which includes whatever of Houghton and Keweenaw counties. Houghton lies upon the Keweenaw Waterway, a partly natural, partly pretentious waterway connecting at both ends to Lake Superior. Across the waterway from Houghton lies the city of Hancock.

The city of Houghton was named for Douglass Houghton, an American geologist and physician, primarily known for his exploration of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Houghton is home to Michigan Technological University, a public research moot founded in 1885. Michigan Tech hosts a once a year Winter Carnival in February, drawing thousands of visitors from with citation to the world. Michigan Tech’s flexible teams are nicknamed the Huskies, and compete primarily in the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). The Michigan Tech Huskies men’s ice hockey team competes in the NCAA Division I Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), and has won three national championships, in 1962, 1965, and 1975.

Native Americans mined copper in and as regards what would innovative be Houghton thousands of years past European settlement. “French explorers had noted… existence [in the area] as in advance as the seventeenth century, [and in] 1772 Alexander Henry had prospected for copper on the Ontonagon River near Victoria.”

Many Cornish and Finnish immigrants arrived in the Houghton Place to acquit yourself in the copper mines in the mining boom that made Copper Country on the Keweenaw Peninsula; both groups have had a great influence on the culture and cuisine of the local area. The Finns and others called much of the Place Copper Island. Smaller numbers of French-Canadian immigrants moved to Houghton, while more of them settled elsewhere in Houghton County.