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1969 Map of Butman

Name: 1969 Topographic Map of Butman
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

The Tittabawassee State Forest and Houghton Lake State Forest dominate this northern Michigan landscape, where the Tittabawassee River and its West Branch meet. The settlement of Butman serves as the primary focal point for local history, featuring the Butman Cem and a concentration of family homesteads along Hilts Road. The terrain is defined by glacial hydrology, with numerous water bodies like Clear Lake, East Twin Lake, and Lake Four interspersed with marshland and forest tracts.

Industry and recreation are visible through several Gravel Pits, a series of Oil Wells in the southeast, and the Twin Lakes Campground. For genealogists, the map preserves the exact placement of rural infrastructure during the late 1960s, from the Coan Millpond to the Pipeline corridors and Sugar River Road, documenting the intersection of natural resources and 20th-century development across the Roscommon and Gladwin County line.