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1931 Map of Seul Choix Point NE

Name: 1931 Topographic Map of Seul Choix Point NE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1931
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1931

About this map

Port Inland Light stands at the edge of Lake Michigan, marking a critical industrial and maritime gateway during the early 1930s. This survey, compiled from aerial photography by the Air Corps, reveals the infrastructure of Inland Harbor and the Inland Transmission Electric Line that powered the developing coast. The landscape is defined by the transition from open water to the interior wetlands of Newton, where the Milakokia flows through a series of coastal marshes.

Interior reaches show a primitive hydrological network including Swan Marsh, Batty Doe Lake, and Little Mud Lake. The boundary between Schoolcraft and Mackinac counties cuts through this low-lying terrain, illustrating the precise surveying of the era. This sheet documents the shoreline from Hughes Point westward, capturing a moment when industrial transport and natural wetlands coexisted on the Upper Peninsula shoreline.