Arenac County Townships

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Townships - Arenac County consists of the following townships:

Information on the federal township and range system

Townships - Legal Descriptions

Legal descriptions of the surveyed townships do not always correspond to the political townships, especially where the political townships are not six miles square.  In Arenac County (*), the townships of Whitney, Sims, Lincoln and Standish are not six miles square.  The descriptions below are read as, "Township 20 North, Range 3 East of the Michigan Meridian".

Michigan Township Map with the locations of the Michigan Meridians marked.

Section Numbers

Sections are numbered according to the following convention:

Township Maps - date unknown - contributed by Marlene Banks

Adams Township - (17kb)
Arenac Township - (29kb)
Au Gres Township - (25kb)
Clayton Township - (22kb)
Deep River Township - (25kb)
Lincoln and Standish Townships - (27kb)
Mason Township - (23kb)
Moffatt Township - (18kb)
Sims Township - (17kb)
Turner Township - (22kb)
Whitney Township - (25kb)

Township Plat Maps - 1906

Standard atlas of Arenac County, Michigan : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county / compiled and published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1906 - contributed by G Knopp

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Arenac County	lo-res 0.4mb	hi-res 3.7mb
Adams Township	lo-res 0.3mb	hi-res 4.0mb
Arenac Township	lo-res 0.3mb	hi-res 4.0mb
Au Gres Township	lo-res 0.3mb	hi-res 4.1mb
Clayton Township	lo-res 0.3mb	hi-res 4.0mb
Deep River Township	lo-res 0.3mb	hi-res 4.3mb
Gibson Township - Bay Co.	lo-res 0.3mb	hi-res 3.8mb
Lincoln and Standish Townships	lo-res 0.4mb	hi-res 8.9mb
Mason Township	lo-res 0.3mb	hi-res 3.5mb
Moffatt Township	lo-res 0.3mb	hi-res 3.9mb
Turner Township	lo-res 0.3mb	hi-res 3.1mb
Whitney Township - including the town plats of Deep River and Alger	lo-res 0.5mb	hi-res 8.8mb
Town Plats 1 - including the town plats of Standish, Twining, Arenac and Bentley	lo-res 0.5mb	hi-res 8.9mb
Town Plats 2 - including the town plats of Omer, Sterling, Worth, Point Lookout and Wallace & Orr Park	lo-res 0.5mb	hi-res 10.5mb

These maps have been indexed by the Arenac County Historical Society.

Population - 1900, 1990 & 2000 Census - by entity

Entity	1900*	1990	2000
.
Arenac County	9,824	14,931	15,243
.
Adams Township	378	417	550
Arenac Township	1,250	921	992
Au Gres Township	622	1,007	1,007
Au Gres Village/City	----	838	1,028
Clayton Township	774	908	1,101
Deep River Township & Sterling Village	816	2,074	2,244
Lincoln Township	1,606	969	1,522
Mason Township	979	865	994
Moffatt Township	247	780	1,121
Omer Village/City	----	385	337
Sims Township	----	836	1,091
Standish Township/Village/City	1,236	1,377	1,581
Turner Township	1,273	628	642
Whitney Township	643	981	1,033

*unofficial figures taken from a review of 1900 Census microfilms

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