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History of County Creation Archived June 25, 2004, at the Wayback Machine; Michigan County History and atlases, digitized database, including Powers, Perry F., assisted by H.G. Cutler, A History of Northern Michigan and its People (1912) Michigan County names per the Michigan government. Archived July 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
The Atlas covers the history of more than 3,000 counties and county equivalents in the United States from the early 1600s to 2000. [1] [2] It is available in print form or as downloadable files in shapefile, Keyhole Markup Language, and PDF formats, which are compatible with geographic information systems including Google Earth and ArcGIS.
The history of Detroit and Michigan; or, The metropolis illustrated; a full record of territorial days in Michigan, and the annals of Wayne County. Farmer, Silas (1890). History of Detroit and Wayne County and early Michigan: a chronological cyclopedia of the past and present., Google version; full text; May, George S. ed.
The Thumb is a region and a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten.The Thumb area is generally considered to be in the Central Michigan region, east of the Flint area and the Tri-Cities and north of Metro Detroit.
It still exists in the names of several businesses and churches, as well as the official name of the business district along Lake Michigan Drive. Many locals still refer to their hometown as Standale, rather than Walker. Kelloggsville, Kent County, near the intersection of 44th St. and Division in the suburbs of Grand Rapids. This was formerly ...
Antrim County (/ ˈ æ n t r ə m / AN-trəm) is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,431. [2] The county seat is Bellaire. [3] The name is taken from County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Antrim County is home to Torch Lake, Michigan's deepest and second-largest inland lake.
All counties in the UP are part of Michigan's 1st congressional district. Jack Bergman, a Republican, has been the U.S. representative for this district since January 2017. In Michigan's 2010 gubernatorial election Republican Rick Snyder carried every UP county but one, Gogebic, on his way to victory over his Democratic opponent, Virg Bernero ...
Huron County was originally attached to neighboring Sanilac and Tuscola counties. It was created by Michigan law on April 1, 1840, [4] and was fully organized by an Act of Legislature on January 25, 1859. [1] Sand Beach (now Harbor Beach) was the county seat until 1865, when the court house burned, destroying most of its records.