What to a North American is a calumet?
Calumet Creek colonial-era term for a certain type of Native American ceremonial pipe. Calumet Creek Calumet Creek is a stream in Pike County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Mississippi River. The stream headwaters arise at at an elevation of about 830 feet. The source area is about one mile east of the community of Edgewood and U.S. Route 61 and the stream flows to the northeast passing south of the community of Calumet. The stream continues to the northeast and enters the Mississippi about one mile north of Clarksville. The confluence is at and an
Calumet, Michigan Town 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 settled in 1864, originally under the name of "Red Jacket", named for a Native American Chief of the Seneca tribe. Until 1895 the name "Calumet" was used by the nearby town of Laurium, Michigan; present day Calumet was not legally named so until 1929. Red Jacket grew due to the copper mines in the area. It was incorporated