MSU Map Library: Links to Useful Sites: Michigan

This interactive map viewer provides a quick way for users to see, print, and export wetland information. In addition to viewing wetlands, a variety of map layers are available, including: dam locations, trout streams and lakes, potential wetland restoration areas, conservation and recreation lands, watershed basins and more

Michigan Surface Water Information Management System provides information about lakes and rivers, both natural and made. Includes environmental monitoring, E-coli, USGS Gage stations, and wastewater discharges.

Each map is in PDF format, georecitfied and minus the collar.

A portal for viewing geologic, oil, and mining features in Michigan.

Provides information about the location, shape and size of commercial forest lands

Interactive map to 1,300 public boating access site, 80 harbors & marinas.

1990 and 2000 Census geography maps in PDF format. [MSU Libraries also has a large collection of paper census maps; most are in the Census Alcove on 1-east, some are in the MSU Map Library.]

Links to images such as the Great Lakes systems, satellite images, snow effect (lake effect), ice cover, glacial movements.

Michigan Department of Transportations interactive site that displays current construction information, lane closures, planned projects, and in the Detroit area current interstate speeds, road cameras and accidents.

Maps of Michigan school districts, both statewide and District-by-District. (see also the United States list for another interactive school district site)

Both an interactive version and a PDF of the published map, with additional options for PDFs of city enlargements.

This web page provides map data (physical region boundary locations and defining characteristics, as well as region names and their descriptive data) for Michigan's 91 physiographic regions. The web interface enables the user to zoom around the state and explore these regions at a variety of scales. In addition to the standard backgrounds provided in Google Maps (roads, satellite images and terrain), this web interface supplies the user with a standard 7.5-minute USGS topographic base, made semi-transparent over a 10-m resolution hillshaded DEM.

Service area map for electric utilities distributing electricity in Michigan.

Alger Delta serves part of the middle Upper Peninsula.

This company has no power outage map

Cherryland serves part of the northwest lower peninsula, based in Traverse City. To see the map, click on the 3 horizontal lines in the upper corner of the Customer's Survey box. Choose Map

This Cooperative serves the eastern Upper Peninsula.

Consumers Energy serves much of Michigan's lower peninsula.

DTE serves southeast Michigan from the Thumb down to the Ohio border.

This cooperative serves part of the western lower peninsula of Michigan.

This company services parts of 5 counties in southern Michigan and parts of northern Indiana.

This utility serves the city of Marquette and much of Marquette County.

This cooperative serves 12 counties in southern Michigan, northern Indiana and northern Ohio.

This organization does not have an outage map.

This cooperative serves the northeast lower peninsula of Michigan.

This electric cooperative serves part of Michigan's thumb area.

This electric cooperative actually serves customers in 13 counties in Mid-Michigan, from Osceola County down to Jackson County.

This company serves an area in Keweenaw, Houghton and Ontonogan Counties.

WE serves much of the western Upper Peninsula.

WPS serves the southern tip of the Upper Peninsula around Menominee.

XCel serves the western tip of the Upper Peninsula

Contains 428 digitized titles (many composed of multiple volumes) published before 1923. Most are full-text searchable, with results displayed as an image or PDF. A user guide is available at this research guide with screen shots.

Scans of the original hand-sketched plats of each township, in PDF format. Most date from 1820's - 1850's.

This system provides access to digital images of the plats of land subdivisions in the State of Michigan's plat files. This system includes all plats beginning with those created under the 1821 territorial act for recording town plats. [Idlewild is not complete, a paper map is available in the MSU Map Library]

General Land Office (GLO) land surveyor notes were interpreted into this digital map that can be used by researchers, land managers, and the general public. A large paper version is available in the MSU Map Library. See also This atlas.