Ottawa County, Michigan, USA

Ottawa County is a county in western Michigan along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, with Grand Haven serving as the county seat and Holland as its largest city. The county extends inland toward the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and includes a varied landscape of Lake Michigan beaches and dunes, wooded parkland, agricultural areas, suburban communities and the lower reaches of the Grand River, which enters Lake Michigan at Grand Haven. Other communities include Hudsonville, Zeeland, Coopersville, Spring Lake and Ferrysburg, while the county administrative complex is located in West Olive. Interstate 96 and U.S. Route 31 provide its principal regional transportation connections. Ottawa County covers about 563 square miles of land and had 296,200 residents at the 2020 census.