2019 Map of Dowagiac

About this map

Dowagiac anchors the northwestern corner of this Cass County landscape, where the street grid gives way to the campus of Southwestern Michigan College and a vast network of glacial lakes and drainage creeks. The terrain is defined by the winding course of Dowagiac Creek and the many smaller water bodies such as Kelsey Lake and La Grange Lake that punctuate the agricultural land. In the southeast, the village of Cassopolis sits along the shores of Stone Lake, serving as a local hub near the Cass County Law and Courts Building. For those tracing family histories in the area, the map preserves the locations of numerous rural burial grounds, including Riverside Cem near the city center and the smaller Schulte Cem and Brady Cem further south in the township, providing a clear spatial context for the region's 21st-century settlement patterns.