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Lapeer

Set off in 1822. Organized in 1833. In 1843 a small piece of territory was given to Tuscola County. In 1855 other territory was given to Tuscola County.

Surrounding counties are Genesee, Tuscola, Sanilac, St. Clair, Macomb, and Oakland.

Selected general works

Ellis, J. Dee.
Pioneer families and history of Lapeer County, Michigan: with 15,000 names indexed. 1992.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  F572.L3 E55 1992

History of Lapeer County, Michigan: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. 1884.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  oversize F572.L3 H58 1884

Pickelhaupt, Bill.
The right place at the right time: the Volga-Germans of Michigan's thumb. 2009.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  F575.R85 P53 2009

Franzen, Russell B.
Lapeer County sesquicentennial reader. 1987.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  F572.L3 F7 1987

Franzen, Russell B.
Squabble City: the story of the Court House War and the people who fought it. 1992.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  F574.L3 F7 1992

Selected newspapers

Imlay City.
IMLAY CITY TIMES. 1888-1896, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1944-1978.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM NEWSPAPERS 2S

Lapeer.
LAPEER COUNTY PRESS AND LAPEER COUNTY CLARION. 1925-1946.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM NEWSPAPERS 2S

Lapeer.
LAPEER DEMOCRAT. 1879-1885.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM NEWSPAPERS 2S

Lapeer.
LAPEER COUNTY PRESS & COUNTY PRESS. 1910-2007.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM NEWSPAPERS 2S

North Branch.
NORTH BRANCH GAZETTE.  1889-1968.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM NEWSPAPERS 2S

Selected plats, maps, and atlases

Beers, F. W. (Frederick W.).
Atlas of Lapeer Co., Michigan: from recent and actual surveys and records. 1874.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM 2S  F566 .C67 1973 r.49 no.147

Dunham, F. A.
Atlas and directory of Lapeer County, Michigan: made from actual surveys and official records. 1893.
LIB OF MICH RARE MICH 4N  Folio G1413.L3 D8z 1893

Rockford Map Publishers.
Atlas & plat book, Lapeer County, Michigan. 1972, 1974.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  G 1413 .L3 R625 [year]

Michigan. State Highway Commission.
Highway and recreational information map. Lapeer County. [1973].
LIB OF MICH MICH DOCS FLAT FILE 2N  G4113.L3 1973 .M53

Selected records, indexes, and transcriptions

VerPlanck, Keitha.
Indigent soldiers burial records, volume I and II: abstracted from the original books in the Lapeer County clerk's office, Lapeer, Michigan. 2000.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  F572.L3 V473 2000

Daughters of the American Revolution. Michigan Society.
Vital records, Lapeer County, Michigan. Publication Year.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM 2S  F574.D79 O5 1951a

Lapeer County Genealogical Society (Mich.).
Cemetery records by townships, Lapeer County, Michigan. [1993].
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  F 574 .L3 C46 1993

Lapeer County marriage records, 1831-1885. 1951.
LIB OF MICH MICROFILM 2S  F572.L3 L33 1951

Michalski, Leonard, Mrs.
Miscellaneous newspaper records (mainly obituaries), Lapeer, Oakland and Sanilac counties, Michigan: includes the years 1919-1989. [1997?].
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  F572.L3 M53 1997

Selected government publications

Lariviere, Robert G.
A traffic accident analysis of high accident locations in Lapeer County. 1970.
LIB OF MICH MICH DOCS OFFICIAL  HE5614.3.M5 L37 1970

Improving vocational education in Lapeer County: an area study commissioned by the Lapeer Intermediate School Districts in Lapeer County. 1966.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N  LC1046.5.M5 I6z

Lapeer County (Mich.).
Examination of the records and accounts of Lapeer County for the calendar year of .... 1954-1968 (incomplete).
LIB OF MICH MICH DOCS OFFICIAL  HJ9259.L37 E93

United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Important farmlands, Lapeer County, Michigan. 1979.
LIB OF MICH US DOCS FLAT FILE 2N  A 57.69:L 31 x

Updated 12/15/2022