Burt Township is in the process of updating its Parks and Recreation Plan, which guides the decisions on developing your township's parks and recreation opportunities. The responses to this survey will provide valuable insight regarding future decisions.
Survey responses are anonymous.
Thank you again for taking the time to participate in this survey.
Please submit your responses by October 15, 2022.
If taking the paper survey please return it to:
Beckett & Raeder Inc.
148 East Front Street, Ste 207
Traverse City MI 49684
(click below)
Welcome to Burt Township
Burt Township is located on the western border of Cheboygan County, which is situated in the north central part of northern Michigan's lower peninsula. While technically Burt Township is one standard geographic township in area, slightly more than half of the Township is water (Burt Lake).
Burt Township History
Burt Township takes its name from Burt Lake, which in turn was named after state surveyor William Burt. The lake is part of an important inland water route, stretching from Crooked Lake and Conway (nine miles from Petoskey) in the south to Lake Huron in the north via the mouth of the Cheboygan River. Native Americans used the route prior to European settlement and it was heavily used for commercial transportation of logs in the second half of the 1800s.
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the Michigan Central Railroad and the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad laid track through to Cheboygan, leading to the foundation of many villages, including that of Burt Lake. About the time lumbering was slowing down, the resort business began to build in the area, creating the beginnings of the seasonal tourist industry still important today. The water route is still in use and frequented by many small pleasure craft.
NOTICES
Photos Needed!
Dear Residents, we are in the process of updating the Burt Township Recreation Plan for 2022 and we would like your participation! Specifically, we are looking for photos to include depicting fun and recreation within the Township (i.e swimming, boating, biking, etc). Submissions should consist of pictures you have taken yourself and for which you expressly give permission for use within the 2022 Rec Plan publication.
If you have any images that you would like to submit, or if you have questions, please email them to burttwpphotos@gmail.com. If you plan to submit a photo, we ask that you please adhere to the following guidelines:
· Image quality should be 300 DPI or higher
· No commercial or copyrighted images
· You must have written permission from any individuals identifiable in the photos other than yourself
· No photos depicting drug/alcohol use
· Please include your full name and phone number, along with the location and a brief description of the photo you are submitting
· Photo submissions are not necessarily assured utilization in the Rec Plan.
Thank you in advance for your participation and have a wonderful summer!
High Speed Internet is coming to the Township's west side
November 2022 Internet Update
The Spectrum broadband fiber project for the Township’s west side is still happening. Supply chain issues, permitting, along with recent changes to the project have pushed things out until sometime 2023. The Spectrum Regional Construction Manager told the Township that this install is the next big project on his list, and he expects to break ground next spring if all goes well.
Residents may have recently noticed a vehicle parked along Brutus Rd./West Burt with a Spectrum emblem. This was a subcontractor from MCF Field Services measuring distances between utility poles and counting how many homes were serviced in between each. This is just one step of many in the planning process.
The Township will continue to monitor progress and provide updates as more information becomes available. Thanks to everyone for their continued patience while Spectrum continues to prepare for this project.
