↑ Wayne County, Michigan History Magazine Archived at the Wayback Machine.Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bibliography on Wayne County".The gray areas represent incorporated cities and villages. The white areas represent unincorporated charter and civil townships. It is connected to the mainland by the Wayne County Bridge and the Grosse Ile Toll Bridge.Īdjacent counties Grosse Ile is the largest island in Wayne County. Cars crosses this boundary at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge. Clair with Essex County, Ontario, Canada. The eastern boundary is a water boundary in the Detroit River and Lake St. Of this, 614.15 square miles (1,590.6 km 2) (or 91.36%) is land and 58.05 square miles (150.3 km 2) (or 8.64%) is water Parts of the Detroit River and Lake St. The county has a total area of 672.20 square miles (1,741.0 km 2). These boundaries were later changed again when Indiana and Illinois became states and as other counties were created in Michigan Territory. This new boundary included Chicago, Illinois and a large strip of Wisconsin along Lake Michigan. On January 14, 1803, the Governor of Indiana Territory, William Henry Harrison, changed the boundary. Clair, and Lake Erie back to the starting point. On August 15, 1796, the boundaries of Wayne County were set to begin at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River then west to Fort Wayne, then to the southernmost point of Lake Michigan and along the western shore north to the territorial boundary in Lake Superior and then along the territorial boundary through Lake Huron, Lake St. When it was created, the entire area of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and small sections that are now part of northern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois were part of Wayne County. It was named for the American general "Mad Anthony" Wayne. Wayne County was one of the first counties formed when the Northwest Territory was created.
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