Michigan County Atlas (State Atlas Series) (Paperback)

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Product Description

Your complete Michigan travel reference! This large-size road atlas features full-color, county-by-county maps for all of Michigan. Each county is mapped separately, along with county indexes for roads, water features and place name. Also included are county facts and narrative description with a primary parks table that lists park features and facilities. Whether your travel is business or pleasure in Michigan, this atlas has it all, including: county / state / U.S. / Interstate roads, cities and towns, federal and state lands, water features, parks, Zip Code boundaries and numbers, airports, hospitals, street address system, Township/Range/Section, ski areas, state boundaries, county boundaries, township boundaries, incorporated area boundaries, military areas, state police locations, golf courses, public boat launches, and much more. The Michigan County Atlas is printed in full color, 11-inches by 17.5-inches in size, perfect bound paperpack, on high quality paper.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Universal Map Enterprises (December 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762501081
• ISBN-13: 978-0762501083
• Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 11 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,466,525 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Delorme Atlas is much better, June 25, 2003

By	M. Naughton "rope skipper" (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I used the Universal Map book for a number of years. Then one day I saw the Delorme Atlas And Gazetteer. The Delorme Atlas is way better, much better use of color, much better topographic information, hiking trail info, and easier to navigate.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very Out-of-Date; Some Maps from 1984!, June 23, 2003

By A Customer

When the first edition of this map book came out in the 1980s, it was most definitely one of the best, most up-to-date county road map atlases of Michigan. However, almost no updates to the maps inside have been made in this book since the early-1990s, with many of the maps inside dating from 1984, some of the oldest being in the rapidly-changing Metro Detroit area! Entire freeways have been built and opened since the maps in this book were last updated.

There are other titles similar to this one that are marginally better, however, I would wholeheartedly recommend anyone needing county-based road maps similar to those included in this atlas to purchase the more up-to-date Regional County Map series from Universal Map. These folding maps--13 cover almost the entire state--are actually the "descendents" of the maps in this atlas. Compare any of the maps in the Michigan Regional County Map titles to those in this book and you get a clear picture of the problem. It is unclear why Universal map has continued to issue new editions of the folding maps year after year, yet has allowed those in this atlas to languish. New editions of other similar atlases (with revisions) are issued by other companies every few years, yet this atlas has remained substantially unaltered for almost twenty years.

While not as convenient, the higher quality and more up-to-date nature of the 13 individual folding maps are more than enough reason to steer clear of this atlas. You can find the regional map titles--Southwest Michigan, South-Central Michigan, Southeast Michigan, Michigan's Thumb, Mid-Michigan, Saginaw Valley of Michigan, Mid-West Michigan, Central Michigan, Northwest Michigan, Northern Highlands of Michigan, Northern Tip of Michigan, Eastern Upper Peninsula, and Copper Country of Michigan's U.P., in gas stations, many bookstores or online. These folding maps also contain insets of many of the cities, towns and villages in that region that are not included in the atlas. If you still need to have the convenience of a bound atlas, I would then recommend either the "Mapbook of Michigan Counties" published by the Michigan United Conservation Clubs or the "Michigan Atlas and Gazetteer" by DeLorme.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Michigan County Atlas, October 2, 2002

By	"beckywork" (Hartland, MI United States) - See all my reviews

The book is very large, but the print and maps are very small. Some of the maps take up two pages, but part of the map is unreadable because it's lost in the binding. I have an older Michigan County Guide, by a different company, and it has more details and is easier to read. This book is missing many roads, if you need to find a major place you'd probably find it with a magnifying-glass, but for those small areas and streets - forget it they are not on these maps.