City of warren and surounding area.

[Gistok]

It seems that we go thru this argument every year....

Most of Macomb County was uninhabited in 1800. And here is a map showing what the natural land use was before much of the area was settled [[very low density) as farmland.
http://mnfi.anr.msu.edu/data/veg1800/macomb.pdf

During the course of the 19th century much of the forested land was cleared, and the swamps and wetlands were drained for farmland. So by the time that the 1872 map that Gnome shows was produced, the land was mainly agricultural land... with some rivers and creeks and their flood plains intact.

Here is an aerial view of southwest Warren circa mid 20th century, before the building boom... showing mainly dry land...

[Wesley Mouch]

It seems that we go thru this argument every year....

Most of Macomb County was uninhabited in 1800. And here is a map showing what the natural land use was before much of the area was settled [[very low density) as farmland.
http://mnfi.anr.msu.edu/data/veg1800/macomb.pdf

During the course of the 19th century much of the forested land was cleared, and the swamps and wetlands were drained for farmland. So by the time that the 1872 map that Gnome shows was produced, the land was mainly agricultural land... with some rivers and creeks and their flood plains intact.

Here is an aerial view of southwest Warren circa mid 20th century, before the building boom... showing mainly dry land...

Is that view looking north from 8m up Mound? Was Mound really built in OC before inside Detroit? A google earth view looks like it could match.

[Danny]

Is that view looking north from 8m up Mound? Was Mound really built in OC before inside Detroit? A google earth view looks like it could match.

No, Mound Rd. was built in Macomb County in the late 1920s as part of future suburban sprawl.

[Hermod]

No, Mound Rd. was built in Macomb County in the late 1920s as part of future suburban sprawl.

Befroe the Depression killed it, there was a proposal to run an interurban on the the Mt Elliot streetcar line out to Utica. The divided highway on Mound Road [[originally Prairie Mound Road) was the result. Stephenson Highway was also built as a divided highway to accommodate an interurban.