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1966 Map of Point Lookout

Name: 1966 Topographic Map of Point Lookout
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1981
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1981

About this map

Saginaw Bay defines the eastern edge of this Michigan coastline, where the land narrows toward the sharp protrusion of Point Lookout. This 1960s landscape, surveyed by the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey and U.S. Lake Survey, reveals a series of lakeside communities and seasonal settlements including Glenwood Beach, Birchwood Shores, and Hammell Beach. The shoreline is characterized by distinctive features such as Whitestone Point and Wagner Beach, while the interior shows the drainage patterns of Silver Drain and Oxbow Lake.

Genealogists will find significance in the presence of the Whitney-Sims Cem and Sims Cem, located near the intersection of the Whitney and Sims township boundaries. The local industry of the era is marked by a Quarry and Sandpit near Cranberry Lake. Further inland, small rural clusters like Dime and Delano sit among the grid of local thoroughfares such as Noble Road and Whitman Road, showing the transition from agricultural land to the developed bayfront.