THE MONTMORENCY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Vanderbilt Moraines setting.
Montmorency County has 546.7 square miles of land in Michigan. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Montmorency County: Vanderbilt Moraines, Onaway Moraines, Mio Plateau.
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
Montmorency County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Vanderbilt Moraines45.9%
- Onaway Moraines44.6%
- Mio Plateau9.5%
Finding your parcel within Montmorency County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Montmorency County, including Montmorency, Vienna, Rust. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Montmorency County by land and water
The Census records 16 square miles of water within Montmorency County, or 2.8% of its total area. That share is close to Montmorency County’s 2.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Montmorency County has 151.4 times the land area of nearby Atlanta CDP (3.61 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alpena County, Cheboygan County, Crawford County, Oscoda 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.

