THE CHEBOYGAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cheboygan Lake Plain setting.
Cheboygan County has 715.3 square miles of land in Michigan. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cheboygan County: Cheboygan Lake Plain, Onaway Moraines, Vanderbilt Moraines.
Glacial hills, till plains, sandy outwash and old lake basins create a varied northern landscape. Conifer and hardwood forests surround many lakes across these glacially shaped uplands.
Regional context: Northern Lakes and Forests ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cheboygan County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cheboygan Lake Plain58.7%
- Onaway Moraines23.4%
- Vanderbilt Moraines17.9%
Finding your parcel within Cheboygan County
The atlas lists 24 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cheboygan County, including Nunda, Forest, Benton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cheboygan County by land and water
The Census records 170.1 square miles of water within Cheboygan County, or 19.2% of its total area. That share is close to Cheboygan County’s 19.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cheboygan County has 24.4 times the land area of nearby Aloha township (29.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Charlevoix County, Emmet County, Mackinac County, Montmorency County, Otsego County, Presque Isle County within Michigan. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

