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Duneland Beach Indiana Map

Explore Duneland Beach, 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 Duneland Beach, Indiana

How to Use This Duneland Beach, Indiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Duneland Beach, 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 Duneland Beach.

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.

CityDuneland Beach
StateIndiana (IN)
CountyLaPorte County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/Detroit)
Latitude41.756151
Longitude-86.833362
Population139
Density546.6 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code46360
Area Code260
County SeatLa Porte
School DistrictMichigan City Area Schools

About Duneland Beach, Indiana

Duneland Beach is a locality in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. It is a small community with a population of 139. The population density is 546.6 people per km². Duneland Beach is located at 41.7562°N, 86.8334°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP code: 46360.

Duneland Beach emerges from the shifting sands where the White Ditch marks a quiet, persistent boundary against the encroaching dunes. It lies 4.6 miles northeast of Michigan City, IN (from Michigan City, IN: bearing 43°T), and is situated 4.2 miles north-northeast of Trail Creek. The landscape here is defined by the restless friction of Lake Michigan, which pulls at the shoreline with a gray, rhythmic persistence that alters the beach’s geometry from one season to the next. Beyond the immediate reach of the water, the terrain resolves into a mosaic of woodlots and sandy ridges, occasionally punctuated by the distant silhouette of Mount Baldy rising like a silent sentinel six miles to the east. The air carries a metallic sharpness, a reminder of the industrial weight that shapes the horizon, yet the immediate environment remains dominated by the raw, unrefined transition between the inland forests and the vast, freshwater expanse.

Duneland Beach maintains a character forged by the intersection of heavy industry and the preservation of wild, shifting topographies. While the economy of the broader region leans heavily on the steel mills that hum along the coast, the daily rhythm here is dictated by the slow migration of sand and the quiet stewardship of spaces like Unknown Park, located only a mile away. History in these parts is not written in grand monuments but in the gradual reclamation of land, where the remnants of earlier settlement efforts occasionally surface beneath the dunes. Residents navigate a life conditioned by this proximity to the Outer Basin and the ever-present influence of the lake, finding a peculiar, austere beauty in the way the wind rearranges the landscape, leaving a place that feels both temporary and anchored in its own stubborn, sandy persistence.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Notre Dame Elementary School (Attraction) — 0.9 mi, 187° S
  • Dunes Summer Theatre (Theatre) — 1.1 mi, 091° E
  • Old Pumping Station (Viewpoint) — 1.2 mi, 239° SW
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 074° E
  • Lake Clare (Attraction) — 1.6 mi, 217° SW
  • Grand Beach Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 066° NE
  • Grand Beach Golf Course (Park) — 2.0 mi, 063° NE
  • Pottawattamie (Local Recreation) — 2.5 mi, 217° SW
  • Whittaker Woods Golf Course (Park) — 3.0 mi, 080° E
  • Memorial Park Krueger (Local Park) — 3.0 mi, 220° SW
  • Robert Peo Public Access Site (Trail Creek) (State Recreation Area) — 3.2 mi, 223° SW
  • Trail Creek Public Fishing Area (State Recreation Area) — 3.9 mi, 195° S
  • Warren Nelson Plaque (Monument) — 4.0 mi, 230° SW
  • Blue Chip Hotel (Attraction) — 4.0 mi, 229° SW
  • Rotary Centennial Monument (Monument) — 4.0 mi, 239° SW
  • Rawson Memorial Stone Plaque (Monument) — 4.2 mi, 239° SW
  • SFC Gallery (Gallery) — 4.5 mi, 231° SW
  • Breakwater Light (Attraction) — 4.5 mi, 246° SW
  • Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 5.1 mi, 237° SW · 11k acres
  • Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (Marine Protected Area) — 5.1 mi, 237° SW
  • Reynold's Creek Gamebird Habitat Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.5 mi, 217° SW
  • Wilkinson Village Heritage Museum (Museum) — 8.7 mi, 056° NE
  • Beverly Shores Depot Museum and Art Gallery (Museum) — 9.7 mi, 234° SW
  • Potawatomi Warrior (Public Artwork) — 11.5 mi, 150° SE
  • The Region of Three Oaks Museum (Museum) — 11.8 mi, 075° E
  • Three Oaks Township Library and Museum (Museum) — 11.9 mi, 075° E
  • Three Oaks Bicycle Museum (Museum) — 11.9 mi, 075° E
  • Southwest Michigan Great Lakes State Bottomland Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 12.6 mi, 029° NE
  • First Church Camp (water tank) (Historic Ruins) — 17.3 mi, 046° NE
  • Captain Mike's Fun Park (Theme Park) — 17.4 mi, 049° NE

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About This Duneland Beach Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Duneland Beach, Indiana. Coordinates: 41.756151, -86.833362. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Duneland Beach includes the ZIP code (46360), telephone area code (260), county seat of LaPorte County (La Porte), and school district assignment (Michigan City Area Schools).

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.

Page generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.