Ottawa County, Michigan, United States

Details for Ottawa County

Name

Ottawa County

Place Type

County

Located in

Michigan, United States

County Seat

Grand Haven

Coordinates

Latitude		42.9500231		42° 57' 00.1" N
Longitude		-86.0005992		86° 00' 02.2" W

Population

187,768

Elevation

193 m

Surrounding Counties

Kent E
Allegan S
Racine (Wisconsin) W
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) W
Muskegon N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1623012

Histopolis Place ID

132962896

Updated May 6, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Ottawa County

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

USGenWeb Archives: Michigan Table of Counties [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/ottawa/7001cemeteries.htm (5 Jul 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1296 (8 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Ottawa County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Ottawa County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MI/Ottawa/ (21 Jun 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Ottawa County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Ottawa County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MI/Ottawa/cem/ (11 Oct 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Ottawa 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/OT.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Ottawa County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=22050&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (11 Oct 2008)

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

Ottawa County, Michigan MI, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Ottawa 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=22050 (15 Nov 2008)

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

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Surveys in Ottawa County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 19 Townships

The Michigan Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Ottawa County. You can navigate to any of the 19 survey townships that overlap Ottawa County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships, Charter Townships and Cities of Ottawa County

9 Townships, 8 Charter Townships, 6 Cities (Township is assumed unless noted)

Allendale Charter Township (charter township)	Blendon	Chester	Coopersville (city)
Crockery	Ferrysburg (city)	Georgetown Charter Township (charter township)	Grand Haven (city)
Grand Haven Charter Township (charter township)	Holland (city)	Holland Charter Township (charter township)	Hudsonville (city)
Jamestown Charter Township (charter township)	Olive	Park	Polkton Charter Township (charter township)
Port Sheldon	Robinson	Spring Lake	Tallmadge Charter Township (charter township)
Wright	Zeeland (city)	Zeeland Charter Township (charter township)

Cities of Ottawa County

6 Cities, 1 Village, 48 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Agnew	Allendale	Bauer	Beaverdam
Beechwood	Borculo	Clark Corners	Conklin
Coopersville (city)	Crisp	Dennison	Drenthe
Eastmanville	Ferrysburg (city)	Forest Grove	Forest Grove Station
Gitchel	Grand Haven (city)	Grand Valley	Harlem
Harrisburg	Herrington	Holland (city)	Hudsonville (city)
Jamestown	Jenison	Lamont	Macatawa
Marne	New Holland	Noordeloos	North Blendon
Nunica	Oaklawn Beechwood	Olive Center	Ottawa Center
Pearline	Pine Creek	Port Sheldon	Reno
Robinson	Rosy Mound	Rusk	Snug Harbor
South Blendon	Spring Lake (village)	Tallmadge	Tasmas Corners
Virginia Park	Vriesland	Waverly	West Olive
Wright	Zeeland (city)	Zutphen

Cemeteries of Ottawa County

39 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Allendale	Beaverdam	Bennet	Big Springs
Blendon	Blendon Township (*)	Borculo	Coopersville
East Drenthe	Floral View (*)	Floral View Memorial Gardens	Forest Grove
Garden of the Last Supper	Graafschap	Grand Haven	Jamestown
Jenison	Lake Forest	Lake Shore	Lakewood
Maplewood	McNitt	New Groningen	Noordeloos
North Holland	Nunica	Old Vriesland	Ottawa Center
Pilgrim Home	Pine Ridge	Restlawn Memorial Gardens	Rosedale Memorial Park
Rusk	Saint Francis Xavier Catholic	Star	Trinity Lutheran
Ventura	Vriesland	Wells	West Olive
Zutphen

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