Mecosta County, Michigan, United States

Details for Mecosta County

Name

Mecosta County

Place Type

County

Located in

Michigan, United States

County Seat

Big Rapids

Coordinates

Latitude		43.6500257		43° 39' 00.1" N
Longitude		-85.3333723		85° 20' 00.1" W

Population

37,308

Elevation

315 m

Surrounding Counties

Clare NE
Isabella E
Montcalm SE
Newaygo W
Lake NW
Osceola N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1622996

Histopolis Place ID

149308147

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Mecosta County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Mecosta County, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecosta_County,_Michigan (17 Jul 2010)

Mecosta County, Michigan MI, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Mecosta County, Michigan MI, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=21974 (15 Nov 2008)

Mecosta County, Michigan Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Mecosta County Michigan
http://www.interment.net/us/mi/mecosta.htm (16 May 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Mecosta County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=21974&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (23 Dec 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Mecosta County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Mecosta County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MI/Mecosta/ (24 Dec 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Mecosta County, Mich. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ME.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1280 (26 Aug 2009)

USGenWeb Archives: Michigan Table of Counties [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mecosta/5401cem.htm (12 Dec 2009)

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Surveys in Mecosta County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 18 Townships

The Michigan Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Mecosta County. You can navigate to any of the 18 survey townships that overlap Mecosta County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships, Charter Townships and Cities of Mecosta County

14 Townships, 2 Charter Townships, 1 City (Township is assumed unless noted)

Aetna	Austin	Big Rapids (city)	Big Rapids Charter Township (charter township)
Chippewa	Colfax	Deerfield	Fork
Grant	Green Charter Township (charter township)	Hinton	Martiny
Mecosta	Millbrook	Morton	Sheridan
Wheatland

Cities of Mecosta County

1 City, 4 Villages, 23 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Altona	Barryton (village)	Big Rapids (city)	Big Rapids Mobile Home Court
Borland	Canadian Lakes	Chippewa Lake	Chippewa Vista
Circle Drive Mobile Home Park	College Park Mobile Village	Country Mobile Home Park	Forest Hills Mobile Home Park
Grant Center	Halls Corner	Havenview Mobile Home Court	Higbee Corner
Holiday Terrace Mobile Home Park	Hunters Creek Estates Mobile Home Park	Mecosta (village)	Morley (village)
Paris	Pogy	Remus	Rodney
Rustford	Stanwood (village)	Sylvester	Titus

Cemeteries of Mecosta County

51 Cemeteries, 6 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Aetna	Altona	Boyd	Brown
Chippewa Lake	Chippewa Township	Church	Crapo
Decker	Dye	Eaton	Fairview
Flake	Fork	Grant Center Number One	Grant Center Number Two
Higbee	Highland View	Hinton	Holt
Indian	Kirschner Farm	Ladner	Martiny
Morgan	Morton (Hinton Township)	Morton (Morton Township)	Mount Camp
Mount Hope	Mt. Camp (*)	Mt. Hope (*)	Norman-Cummings
Olin	Parkhill	Pine	Pine River
Pioneer	Quigley	Roberts	Rodney
Rustford	Saint Anne's	Saint Apollonia	Saint Michael
Saint Peters	South Grant	Sparks	St. Anne's (*)
St. Apollonia (*)	St. Michael (*)	St. Peters (*)	Stanwood
Strong	Van Gilder	Wamboldt	West
West Aetna

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