Michigan’s border dispute with Ohio is a pretty well-known spat known as the Toledo War (though it could barely be considered one) that resulted in Michigan getting the Upper Peninsula. In contrast, Ohio received the five-mile stretch of land containing Toledo. Since then, the borders between Michigan’s neighboring states haven’t changed much.
However, that could soon change with Senate Bill 595, which aims to “re-monument the Michigan-Indiana border” for the first time since the 1800s. It’s a curious piece of legislation about something that is probably not on most people’s radars, and probably won’t change too much.
Michigan-Indiana Border Re-Evaluation
State Senator Jonathan Lindsey’s plan for the border is not anything drastic. In fact, he estimates that the border could shift “less than 30 feet either way”. But the last border survey took place in 1827, and this one would be more of a formality than anything else.
When the survey was done back in 1827, markers were placed to designate where the border line was, but over the years, those markers “have been lost to time, creating a gray area as to where each state’s border actually starts/ends…