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County in Michigan, United States

Saginaw County, officially the County of Saginaw, is a county located in the U. S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 190,124. The county seat is Saginaw. The county was created by September 10, 1822, and was fully organized on February 9, 1835. See List of Michigan county name etymologies. Saginaw County comprises the Saginaw, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Saginaw Midland Bay City Combined Statistical Area, the 5th largest metropolitan area in Michigan.

The name Saginaw is widely believed to mean "where the Sauk were" in Ojibwe, from Sace nong or Sak e nong (Sauk Town), due to the belief that the Sauk once lived there. But it is more likely that the name means "place of the outlet", from the Ojibwe sag (opening) and ong (place of). When Natives told Samuel de Champlain that the Sauk nation was on the western shore of Lake Michigan, Champlain mistakenly placed them on the western shore of Lake Huron. This mistake was copied on subsequent maps, and future references identified this as the place of the Sauks. Champlain himself never visited what is now Michigan.

The area was inhabited from about 1000 B. C. to 1000 A. D. by the Native American Hopewell culture, followed by the Anishnabeg. Some historians believe that the Sauk at one time lived in the area and were driven out by Ojibwe (Chippewa), before the area was first visited by Europeans. The Saginaw region includes an extensive network of many rivers and streams which converge into the Saginaw River and provided a means for easy travel for the Native American population among numerous settlements and hunting areas, as well as access to Lake Huron. Saginaw was also a frequent meeting location for councils of the Ojibwe, Pottawatomi, and Ottawa—the Three Fires of the Anishnabeg. What is today Saginaw County was inhabited by the Ojibwe at the time of the arrival of Euro Americans. The Ojibwe were still the dominant force in the area in the 1820s, and in 1827 they were attacked by a two groups of Winnebago people coming from Wisconsin. The Ojibwe prevailed in this fight with the aid of local Euro American settlers. In 1853 the Ojibwe and Ottawa both established large hunting camps along the Saginaw River, although Euro American settlers were beginning to establish saw mills and farms in the area by that point.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 816 square miles (2,113 km2), of which 800 square miles (2,072 km2) is land and 16 square miles (41 km2) (1.9%) is water. It is part of the Flint/Tri Cities region of Mid Michigan. The median elevation in Saginaw County, Michigan is 620 feet (189 m) above sea level.

Saginaw County Parks and Recreation Commission is a county wide government organization founded by William H. Haithco Sr. in 1969. Haithco then served as chairman from 1972 to 1999. The organization operates six parks throughout the county Imerman Memorial Park, Veterans Memorial Park, Ringwood Forest, Price Nature Center, William H. Haithco Recreation Area, and The Saginaw Valley Rail Trail. These parks comprise over 550 acres, including 18 miles of hiking trails, two boat launches, four fishing access sites, a swimming beach, picnic shelters, and recreation programs.

Saginaw County was the destination of a Sauk footpath that became one of the first roads in what is now Michigan, the Saginaw Trail. The trail, first authorized in 1819, was completed to Saginaw in 1841. Since then, Saginaw's access to the outside world has expanded with the development of maritime, rail, air, and freeway links to the major cities of Michigan and neighboring states and nations.

Scheduled airline service is available from MBS International Airport near Freeland, Michigan and Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan. Harry Browne Airport in Buena Vista Charter Township also serves the region.

The Saginaw River is maintained by the Corps of Engineers, and from time to time, dredged to maintain a shipping channel down the river to Bay City, and from there, to the Great Lakes.

Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) is a four year state university located in eastern Kochville Township. Delta College is a two year community college that serves Saginaw County, but is located in neighboring Bay County, a few miles to the north of the SVSU campus.

George C. Hinkley (1892 1936), Wisconsin State Assemblyman and businessman, was born in Saginaw County. Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) Pulitzer prize and National Book Award winning poet was born and buried here.