Michigan Counties - Tuscola County

Tuscola County was first settled by New Yorker Ebenezer Davis, his wife
and eleven children. Townsend North, also a New Yorker, was a lumberman who
received 3,000 acres of Tuscola timberlands for building a bridge across
the Cass River in 1835. Fifty years later, forest fires ravaged the area
but ironically benefited the county by clearing the land for agriculture
to expand. Sugar beet production increased dramatically offering one cent
per pound for sugar manuafactured from sugar beets.

The annual Tuscola County Pumpkin Festival is held the first full weekend
in October. The Tuscola County Art Deco style courthouse was designed by
Detroit architect William H. Kunl and built by Caro native, Cecil M. Kelly,
in 1932. It is faced with Indiana limestone.

COUNTY STATISTICS

County Seat: Caro

Size: 816 Square Miles

Elevation: 600-900 Feet

Physiography: Rolling plains, lake border plains

Growing Season: 120-140 days

Annual Precipitation: 28-30 inches

Average Snowfall: 40-50 inches

Forest Type: Aspen-Birch, Maple-Beech-Hemlock

Fall Colors: Early October

CITIES WITHIN

Akron (48701) - Bradleyville - Caro (48723) - Cass City (48726)
Colling - Colwood - Dayton - Deford (48729) - Ellington - Elmwood
Fairgrove (48733) - Fostoria (48435) - Gagetown (48735) - Gilford (48736)
Juaniata - Kingston (48741) - Mayville (48744) - Millington (48746)
Oakhurst - Quanicasse - Reese (48757) - Richville (48758)
Silverwood (48760) - Thomas - Tuscola (48769) - Unionville (48767)
Vassar (48768) - Wahjamega - Watrousville - Wilmot - Wisner (48862)

SURROUNDING COUNTIES

Genesee - Huron - Lapeer - Saginaw - Sanilac

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

Prosecuting Attorney James Robert Reed 517-672-3900

Accounting June Hagan 616-738-4098

Tuscola County Clerk 517-672-3780

Tuscola County Web Site

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