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1946 Map of Metamora

Name: 1946 Topographic Map of Metamora
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1946
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1946

About this map

Glacial kettle lakes and rolling moraines characterize this portion of Lapeer County in the mid-1940s. The Michigan Central railroad serves as the primary corridor through the village of Metamora, connecting it to the smaller settlement of Thomas near the border with Oakland County. The landscape is dotted with small-scale rural infrastructure, including numerous family-named landmarks and local burial grounds like Schuneman Cem and Farmers Creek Cem.

Water is a defining element of the terrain, with dozens of named bodies including Lake Minnewanna, Wallace Lake, and the deep basins of Wolf Lake and Kellogg Lake. Educational life is marked by a network of one-room schoolhouses such as Newark Sch, Gardner Sch, and Brownell Sch., reflecting a community structured around local township hubs and farm-to-market roads before the post-war era of consolidation and development began in earnest.