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Local Map Resources in Michigan
Kathleen Weessies, Maps/GIS Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries, weessie2@mail.lib.msu.edu

Abstract
Public and academic reference librarians may find they receive questions about local land use that are not easily addressed through mass-market publications. To find land use information in Michigan, it is necessary to understand who creates the information, where the information is stored, and if and/or how this type of information is distributed. This article examines a variety of map resources that relate to zoning, flood risk, and historical land ownership. The purpose of this article is to assist librarians in guiding patrons to resources that exist inside and outside the library. The author urges librarians to build collections of local government maps that may not otherwise be preserved.

This is a good article with great further resources for many different types of land research that a reference librarian might encounter.

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Michigan Plat subdivisions includes historic maps

"Welcome to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation web site. We provide live access
to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1820 and the present. We also have images related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this site does not
currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States."

"This system provides access to digital images, with print capability, of the plats and related documents of land subdivisions in the State of Michigan's plat files. The State of Michigan began maintaining a file of all plats in the state in 1873. A copy of all plats prepared after that date were filed with the State.
Beginning in 1909 and completed in 1911, a copy of all plats on file with the 83 county Register of Deeds and recorded prior to 1873 were duplicated and the duplicate copies incorporated into the State's files. This system includes all plats in the State of Michigan beginning with the plats created under the 1821 territorial act for recording town plats.

The related documents include court orders, municipal resolutions, municipal ordinances, surveyor's affidavits, and county road commission's resolutions. Generally these documents alter a plat on file in some way.

Currently, there are over 66,000 plats on file and images for over 99% of those plats are available here. Related documents with available digital imagery are automatically accessed with the plat as additional page(s). Not all related documents are available in digital form. Additional related documents might exist that affect a plat and may be available at the county Register of Deeds."
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