2017 Map of Laingsburg

About this map

Laingsburg and Ovid anchor the north and south ends of this landscape along the Clinton and Shiawassee County line. The terrain is defined by a dense network of agricultural drainage and slow-moving water, including the Maple River in the north and the Looking Glass River in the south. Genealogists will find a high density of rural burial grounds, such as Middlebury Cemetery and Putnam Cemetery, which often represent the earliest nineteenth-century farm families of these townships. To the west, Lake Victoria stands out as a distinctive water body surrounded by a residential street grid, contrasting with the strictly rectilinear section-line road system that governs the rest of the quadrangle. Several man-made waterways like Putnam Drain and Alder Creek Drain demonstrate the long-term efforts to manage the low-lying glacial topography for productive farmland.