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Burns Harbor Indiana Map

Explore Burns Harbor, Indiana, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Burns Harbor, Indiana

How to Use This Burns Harbor, Indiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Burns Harbor, Indiana. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Indiana or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Burns Harbor.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Burns Harbor
State	Indiana (IN)
County	Porter County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.625871
Longitude	-87.133368
Population	2,055
Density	123.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	46304
Area Code	260
County Seat	Valparaiso
School District	Duneland School Corporation

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About Burns Harbor, Indiana

Burns Harbor is a locality in Porter County, Indiana, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,055. The population density is 123.3 people per km². Burns Harbor is located at 41.6259°N, 87.1334°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Burns Harbor is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 46304.

Burns Harbor occupies a singular, utilitarian edge where the industrial horizon meets the shifting sands of the Great Lakes basin. It lies 3.7 miles west-northwest of Chesterton, IN (from Chesterton, IN: bearing 286°T), and is situated 4.1 miles north-northeast of Portage. The Samuelson Ditch cuts a narrow, purposeful path through the earth here, drawing the eye toward the vast, metallic expanse of the regional manufacturing landscape. Though the terrain remains largely flat and reclaimed, the proximity of the dunes provides a porous, sandy boundary that resists the relentless geometry of the steel works. To the north, the water of Lake Michigan churns with a cold, insistent energy, casting a pale, diffused light over the scrub brush and industrial stacks that define the local skyline. On the clearest of days, the faint, jagged silhouette of Stony Island Ridge might be imagined haunting the far-off horizon, though the reality of the immediate landscape is one of grit and the quiet, heavy labor of the littoral zone.

Burns Harbor functions as an essential junction of commerce, defined by the complex operations of Burns International Harbor and the deep, enduring connection to the steel industry that anchors the local economy. The rhythms of life here are dictated by the arrival of lake freighters and the steady, rhythmic pulse of heavy transport moving toward the water. Adjacent to the industrial core, the protected expanse of Indiana Dunes National Park offers a profound contrast, preserving a wilderness of marram grass and sandy bluffs that seems to exist in a different century than the blast furnaces nearby. This duality gives the locality its distinctive character: a place where the raw, elemental power of the lake is perpetually balanced against the disciplined, iron-willed output of human enterprise. Residents move through these spaces with a pragmatic awareness of the wind and the weather, their daily lives shaped by the intersection of natural beauty and the unyielding demands of an active port.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 0.6 mi, 177° S · 11k acres
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Marine Protected Area) — 0.6 mi, 177° S
Lakeland Park (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 143° SE
Imagination Glen (Local Park) — 2.2 mi, 180° S
Portage Lakefront And Riverwalk (Local Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 270° W
Brassie Golf Club (Park) — 2.6 mi, 137° SE
Splash Down Dunes Waterpark (Attraction) — 3.6 mi, 081° E
Indiana Dunes State Park (State Park) — 3.8 mi, 071° E
Indiana Dunes State Park (Dunes Nature Preserve) (Marine Protected Area) — 3.8 mi, 063° NE
Dunes Prairie Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 3.8 mi, 063° NE
Tolleston Dunes Outlook (Viewpoint) — 3.9 mi, 256° W
Robbinhurst Golf Course (Park) — 4.2 mi, 181° S
Charles and Lorraine Sandor (Monument) — 4.4 mi, 057° NE
Dunes Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 058° NE
Verteran's Memorial (Monument) — 4.9 mi, 107° E
Bill and Fran Meyer (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 059° NE
Tuskegee Airmen (Public Artwork) — 6.4 mi, 266° W
Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education (Museum) — 7.1 mi, 259° W
49'er Drive-in Theater (Cinema) — 8.2 mi, 142° SE
Beverly Shores Depot Museum and Art Gallery (Museum) — 8.3 mi, 067° NE
Chicago Street Theater (Theatre) — 11.4 mi, 161° S
Porter County Jail (Museum) — 11.7 mi, 161° S
Martin Luther King Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 12.0 mi, 160° S
Founders Rock (Attraction) — 12.0 mi, 160° S
Zao Island (Theme Park) — 12.1 mi, 164° S
Gabis Arboretum at Purdue Northwest (Nature Reserve) — 12.5 mi, 184° S
Breakwater Light (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 058° NE
SFC Gallery (Gallery) — 13.5 mi, 063° NE
Blue Chip Hotel (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 063° NE
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 47.7 mi, 251° W · 18k acres

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