GLO survey plat, T39N R11W, Beaver archipelago (originals approved c. 1849, Lucius Lyon surveyor general; 'BIG BEAVER I.' / 'GARDEN ISLAND' labels).
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A one-page black-and-white scanned survey plat appears on aged paper. It shows outlined land areas with section lines and measurements, a small inset map, ruled tables, printed labels, and handwritten annotations and signatures.
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Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office records
1 page · PDF · 653 KB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
Township T.39 N. Range T.11 W. Mer. Mich.; LAKE MICHIGAN; BEAVER ISLAND; GARDEN ISLAND; Trout Island
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
The catalogue identifies this as a General Land Office original survey plat for Township 39 North, Range 11 West, in the Beaver archipelago. The record states that the original was approved circa 1849, with Lucius Lyon identified as surveyor general. It is held by the Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office records, and was served through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources spatial data library.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
Small labels, table entries, measurements, and handwritten notes are largely illegible at this resolution. The final words of the title and some header text cannot be made out confidently.
Rights and credit
Public domain (U.S. federal survey record, served by Michigan DNR)
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Provenance
- Held by
- Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office records
- Collection
- GLO original survey plats
- Original
- https://www.dnr.state.mi.us/spatialdatalibrary/pdf_maps/glo_plats/charlevoix/39n11w.pdf
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-31
- Title from
- the note recorded at retrieval
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | 1 page | 653 KB | 87054bb109a0… |
Checksums are the values recorded when each copy was taken.
Download
- Web-sized image900 × 672 · 35 KB · WebP
- The full-resolution original, from Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office records653 KB · PDF
The archive holds its own copy of that file and will supply it on request; it is not re-served here, because the holder serves it better and a second copy is a second thing to go stale.
Cite this
“GLO survey plat, T39N R11W, Beaver archipelago (originals approved c”. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office records. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/map/39n11w/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.
Built only from what the archive recorded: the names on the record, the title as recorded, the date if one was recorded, this page, and the date the copy was taken. Nothing is filled in to satisfy a citation style.