Cass County: Smallest county in Michigan.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The county was founded in 1829 by the Michigan territorial governor at the time, Lewis Cass (Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson). At the time of its founding, there were a large number of Potowatami Indians inhabiting the area. It was one of the least forested areas of southwestern Michigan and had the most fertile soil as well. The Village of Cassopolis is the geographical center of the county and also the county seat.
There are over 250 lakes in Cass County
The largest lake in Cass County is Diamond Lake, which is a 1,020 acre lake with an island in the middle of it
LUNKERS: one of the largest outdoors, hunting, and fishing stores in the country! It was founded in Edwardsburg in 1985.
Most of the land in Cass County is used for Farming
The majority of the county is covered in soil from the soil order "Alfisols." Alfisols form mostly in semiarid to humid regions usually under the cover of a hardwood forest, and the fossil record of this type of soil dates back to the late Devonian period. The sub-soil is clay-enriched. "Alf" refers to periodic table symbols for aluminum (Al) and iron (Fe). Because
of their productivity and abundance, the Alfisols represent one of the
more important soil orders for food and fiber production. They are
widely used both in agriculture and forestry, and are generally easier
to keep fertile than other humid-climate soils. Most of Cass county is covered in private farmland on which mainly corn and soybeans are cultivated and a huge reason for that is the rich soil.LAYERS ooOOOOooohhh
SHALE
100 percent of the county contains shale and nothing else (according to basically every source I looked at) We all know what Shale is by now i'm sure but...
