Wawatam Township is a civil township of Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 661. The village of Mackinaw City is located mostly within the township. The township is named after Wawatam, an Odawa chief noted for rescuing British trader Alexander Henry the elder from the Ojibwas' capture of Fort Michilimackinac in 1763.