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Lyndon, Sylvan, Webster And Dexter

Lyndon, Sylvan, Webster And Dexter image
Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
February
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

LYNDON, SYLVAN, WEBSTER AND DEXTER

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HAVE 1/4 OF THE IMPROVED LAND OF THE COUNTY

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The Smallest Acreage of Unimproved Land is in Ypsilanti Township

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The supervisors of Washtenaw in making up their returns showed that there were 91,275 acres of unimproved lands in farms in Washtenaw county or a little less than a quarter of the acreage returned.  It might be interesting to note where this unimproved land is.

The greatest acreage of unimproved lands in Washtenaw is in Lyndon township, there being found 9,497 acres there, or nearly 45 per cent of the total acreage.  Sylvan stands second with 6,602 acres or about a third of the total acreage, and Webster third with 6,054 acres.  Dexter township is fourth with 5,990 acres.  These four townships all joined together, contain about a fourth of all the unimproved land in the county.

The smallest acreage of unimproved land is in Ypsilanti township, 1,848 acres, the second smallest Lodi, with 2,706 acres and the third Ann Arbor, with 2,753 acres.  Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are the two smallest townships in the county, the cities encroaching upon them.

The acreage of unimproved land in the other townships is:  Augusta 4,409, Bridgewater 4,381, Freedom 5,406, Lima 5,875, Manchester 3,131, Northfield 5,534, Pittsfield 3,091, Salem 3,872, Saline 4,143, Scio 4,667, Sharon 3,693, Superior 3,905, York 3,818.