Menominee ( mə-NAH-mə-nee) is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,599 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Menominee County. Menominee is the fourth-largest city in the Upper Peninsula, behind Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie, and Escanaba. Menominee Township is located to the north of the city, but is politically autonomous.

Menominee is allocation of the Marinette, WI–MI Micropolitan Statistical Area.

In historic times, this Place was the conventional territory of the Menominee Indian Tribe. The town of Menominee was named after their English declare which in savings account to translates as “wild rice,” a nickname resolved to them by their Ojibwe neighbours based upon their gardening of wild rice as a staple food. In their own language, they are known as Mamaceqtaw which means simply “the people”, and the town of Menominee is known as Menīkāneh, which means “at the great village”. They were removed to west of the Mississippi River and now have a reservation along the Wolf River in North Central Wisconsin after ceding their territory to the United States in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars.

Menominee gained beat in the 19th century as a lumber town; in its heyday, it produced more lumber than any new city in the United States of America. During this times of prosperity, the Menominee Opera House was built. It is visceral restored. In the 1910s a cycle car, the “Dudly Bug”, was manufactured in Menominee. In the waning years of lumber production, local issue interests, interested in diversifying Menominee’s manufacturing base, attracted inventor Marshall Burns Lloyd and his Minneapolis company Lloyd Manufacturing, which made wicker baby buggies. In 1917 Lloyd invented an automated process for weaving wicker and manufactured it as the Lloyd Loom. This robot process is still in use today. In the 21st century, the economy of Menominee is based upon manufacturing (paper products, wicker lawn furniture, and auto supplies) and tourism.