2023 Map of Bad Axe East

About this map

Bad Axe serves as the focal point for this survey of the Michigan Thumb, where the seat of Huron County sits at the intersection of a rigid agricultural grid and a complex drainage network. The eastern edges of the city show significant municipal development, including the Huron County Building and the Huron County Memorial Airport. Outside the central settlement, the landscape is defined by the headwaters of the New River and Willow Creek, supplemented by an extensive system of artificial waterways like Colfax Drain and Symons Drain that allowed for the intensive farming of this flat region. Smaller communities such as Rapson and Verona anchor the outlying sections, surrounded by several well-documented burial grounds including Saint Joseph Cem and the Most Holy Trinity Cem, which provide valuable location data for those tracing local family lineages.