A large portion of the area is the Grayling outwash plain, a broad outwash plain including sandy ice-disintegration ridges, jack pine barrens, some white pine-red pine forest, and northern hardwood forest.

Service industry and retail trade relating to tourism make up most of the economic base in this rural area.

Republican Party nominees have garnered the Montmorency County vote 76% of the time (26 of 34 elections).

The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages, and vital records, administers public health regulations, and participates with the state in the provision of social services.

The county board of commissioners controls the budget and has limited authority to make laws or ordinances.

In Michigan, most local government functions – police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance etc.

The species lives in only five locations in the world, two of which are in Montmorency County, both inside the Mackinaw State Forest.

In July 1999, six additional adult beetles were identified in the county living in Van Hetton Creek.

The Van Hetton Creek sighting therefore provides the possibility that more of these very rare beetles might be found elsewhere in Montmorency County.