THE PRESQUE ISLE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Onaway Moraines setting.
Presque Isle County has 658.7 square miles of land in Michigan. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Presque Isle County: Onaway Moraines, Cheboygan Lake Plain.
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
Presque Isle County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Onaway Moraines52.5%
- Cheboygan Lake Plain47.5%
Finding your parcel within Presque Isle County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Presque Isle County, including Bismarck, Case, Allis. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Presque Isle County by land and water
The Census records 1,914 square miles of water within Presque Isle County, or 74.4% of its total area. That share is close to Presque Isle County’s 74.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Presque Isle County has 103.3 times the land area of nearby Presque Isle Harbor CDP (6.37 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alpena County, Cheboygan County, Chippewa County, Mackinac County, Montmorency County within Michigan. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

