Michigan County Maps and Atlases
A John Farmer 1855 Wayne County plat map was the first Michigan map to show land ownership. H. F. Wallings?s 1873 atlas for the entire state was reprinted in 1977 by The Bookmark, in Knightstown, Indiana. Many county maps indicating ownership were published as part of the 1876 centennial. Extensive map collections are available at the Library of Michigan and the Burton Historical Collection.
Consult Robert W. Karrow?s Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900 (Chicago: The Newberry Library, n.d.). This fourteen-volume set lists all known pre-1900 plat maps and plat books for eleven states, including Michigan.
The earliest Sanborn map for Michigan is the year 1868 for the community of Lansing.
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Rotating Formation Michigan Boundary County Maps
(Maps made with the use AniMap Plus County Boundary Historical AniMap 3.0 and with the Permission of the Goldbug Company)
| County Formation years | ||||||||||||||
| 1790 | 1792 | 1796 | 1800 | 1801 | 1803 | 1805 | 1815 | 1816 | 1817 | 1818 | 1820 | 1821 | 1822 | 1826 |
| 1827 | 1829 | 1830 | 1831 | 1832 | 1833 | 1834 | 1835 | 1836 | 1837 | 1838 | 1839 | 1840 | 1843 | 1844 |
| 1845 | 1846 | 1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 | 1853 | 1855 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1865 |
| 1867 | 1869 | 1871 | 1873 | 1875 | 1877 | 1879 | 1881 | 1883 | 1885 | 1887 | 1891 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 |
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| 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890-1930 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Map Abbreviations | ||||
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| unorg. = unorganized g. = gained w. = with fr. = from atmt. = attachment exch = exchanged nca.= non county area ch. = changed Al?? - Alger Alc - Alcona All - Allegan Alp - Alpena Ant - Antrim Ar?? - Arenac Bay - Bay Ben - Benzie Ber - Berrien Bga - Baraga |
Bra - Branch Bry - Barry Cal - Calhoun Cas - Cass Cbg - Cheboygan Cha - Charlevoix Chi - Chippewa Cla - Clare Cli - Clinton Cr?? - Crawford De?? - Delta Di?? - Dickinson Ea?? - Eaton Em?? - Emmet Ge?? - Genesee Gl?? - Gladwin Go?? - Gogebic Gr?? - Gratiot |
GT?? - Grand Traverse Hi?? - Hillsdale Ho?? - Houghton Hu?? - Huron In?? - Ingham Ion - Ionia Ios - Iosco Ir?? - Iron Is?? - Isabella Ja?? - Jackson Ken - Kent Kew - Keweenaw Kka - Kalkaska Kzo - Kalamazoo Lak - Lake Lap - Lapeer Lee - Leelenau Len - Lenawee |
Li?? - Livingston Lu?? - Luce Mar - Marquette Mas - Mason Mcb - Macomb Mcm - Montcalm Mcy - Montmorency Mec - Mecosta Men - Menominee Mid - Midland MIs - Missaukee Mnc - Mackinac Mro - Monroe Mte - Manistee Mu?? - Muskegon New - Newaygo Oa?? - Oakland Oc?? - Oceana |
Og?? - Ogemaw Ola - Osceola On?? - Ontonagon Osd - Oscoda Ots - Otsego Ott - Ottawa PI?? - Presque Isle Ros - Roscommon Sag - Saginaw San - Sanilac Sc?? - Schoolcraft SC?? - St. Clair Shi - Shiawassee SJ?? - St. Joseph Tu?? - Tuscola VB?? - Van Buren Was - Washtenaw Way - Wayne We?? - Wexford |
Michigan Atlases
Disclaimer: All maps are free to use for your own genealogical purposes and may not be reproduced for resale or distribution
These are scanned from the original copies so you can see the states and counties as our ancestors saw them over a hundred years ago. Some maps years (not all) have cities, railroads, P.O. locations, township outlines and other features useful to the avid genealogist in North America.
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| 1836 Michigan | 1845 Michigan | 1795 United States | 1814 United States | United States |
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