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Petoskey is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 6,080. It is the county seat of Emmet County.

Petoskey and the surrounding area are notable for being the setting of several of the Nick Adams stories by Ernest Hemingway, who spent his childhood summers on nearby Walloon Lake, as well as being the place, where for Calliope the protagonist of Jeffrey Eugenides' "Middlesex", life takes a severe and lasting turn. Petoskey is famous for a high concentration of Petoskey stones, the state stone of Michigan. Petoskey is the birthplace of Information Theorist Claude Shannon and Civil War Historian Bruce Catton and is the boyhood home of singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens. "Petoskey" means "rays of dawn" in the language of the Ottawa (tribe) Indians (Little Traverse Bay Band) who are the original inhabitants.

This city was the northern terminus of the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad.

North Central Michigan College is located in Petoskey.

Petoskey is on the southeast shore of the Little Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Bear River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.5 km² (5.2 mi²). 13.0 km² (5.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.5 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (4.02%) is water.

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