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1983 Map of Parkdale

Name: 1983 Topographic Map of Parkdale
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1983
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1983

About this map

The coastal landscape of Manistee County is defined here by the confluence of industrial infrastructure and the Lake Michigan shoreline in the early 1980s. The city of Manistee sits at the center of a complex hydrological network where the Manistee River feeds into Manistee Lake, surrounded by the Manistee River State Game Area. Evidence of the region's mid-century economic drivers is visible in the Chesapeake and Ohio rail lines and several Oil/Gas Well sites scattered near the coast.

Further north, the lakefront transitions from the developed community of Parkdale to the recreational grounds of Orchard Beach State Park. Local history is preserved through the locations of the East Lake Sch, St Marys Mt Carmel Ch, and the small settlement of Williamsport near the Portage Point lighthouse. The map also delineates the Old Indian Treaty Bdy, providing a spatial reference to the region's historic land divisions.