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Cousins Island Maine Map

Explore Cousins Island, Maine, 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 Cousins Island, Maine

How to Use This Cousins Island, Maine Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Cousins Island, Maine. 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 Maine 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 Cousins Island.

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	Cousins Island
State	Maine (ME)
County	Cumberland County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	43.75897
Longitude	-70.14366
Population	528
Density	192.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	04096
Area Code	207
County Seat	Portland
School District	Yarmouth

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About Cousins Island, Maine

Cousins Island is a locality in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. It is a small community with a population of 528. The population density is 192.1 people per km². Cousins Island is located at 43.7590°N, 70.1437°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 04096.

Cousins Island defines the jagged reach of the coastline, where the salt-heavy air clings to the dark, needled boughs of spruce and fir. It lies 8.7 miles northeast of Portland, ME (from Portland, ME: bearing 40°T), and is situated 9.5 miles north-northeast of South Portland. Granite outcroppings break the surface of the earth like the spines of ancient, sleeping creatures, while the tides pull rhythmically against the rocky shore of Tinker Preserve. The light here carries a peculiar, silver quality at dusk, softening the sharp edges of the landscape and drawing a quiet focus to the expanse of the Atlantic as it churns toward Dead Mans Cove. Inland, the terrain rises into quiet, wooded slopes, far removed from the jagged heights of Mitchell Ledge, which remains a distant, hazy silhouette against the horizon.

Cousins Island bears the weight of a long maritime heritage, once serving as a vital node for those who lived by the pull of the sea and the harvest of the tides. The local economy has shifted from the labor of traditional water-borne trades to a more deliberate, residential pace, though the ghost of the working waterfront persists in the occasional lobster pot stacked neatly against a weathered pier. Life here moves in tandem with the seasonal flux of the water, influenced by the proximity of the Royal River, whose currents mark the steady transition of the tides. Residents find their solitude in the wilder corners of the landscape, occasionally wandering toward the distant rush of Pumgustuck or finding the cool, shadowed quiet of the Falmouth Town Forest. Even as the modern world encroaches, the island maintains a sturdy independence, anchored by the cold, clear clarity of its coastal geography and the enduring presence of the sea.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tinker Preserve (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 014° N
Littlejohn Narrows Overlook (Viewpoint) — 0.4 mi, 103° E
Sandy Point Beach on Cousins Island (Conservation Area) — 0.7 mi, 006° N
Littlejohn Island Preserve (Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 076° E
Spear Farm Estuary Preserve (Local Park) — 2.4 mi, 345° N
Alan E. Hutchinson Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 118° SE
Royal River Community Players (Theatre) — 3.2 mi, 316° NW
Eartha (Monument) — 3.5 mi, 343° N
Schooner Windfall (Monument) — 3.8 mi, 028° NE
Big Indian (Attraction) — 4.1 mi, 359° N
Falmouth Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 239° SW
Bustins Island Historical Society (Museum) — 4.4 mi, 054° NE
Whaleboat Island (State Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 093° E
Pratt'S Brooke Park (Local Recreation) — 4.7 mi, 341° N
Wolfes Neck Woods State Park (State Park) — 4.9 mi, 031° NE
Wolfes Neck Woods (State Park) — 4.9 mi, 031° NE
Elizabeth Moss Gallery (Gallery) — 4.9 mi, 241° SW
Flagship Cinemas (Cinema) — 5.3 mi, 240° SW
Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 5.4 mi, 118° SE · 21k acres
Fort McKinley Museum (Museum) — 5.8 mi, 206° SW
Jewell Island Military Reservation (Historic Castle / Fort) — 6.2 mi, 158° S
Greely Center for the Arts (Arts Centre) — 6.2 mi, 296° NW
Cumberland Veterans Monument (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 298° NW
Desert of Maine Farm Museum (Museum) — 7.0 mi, 355° N
"the Final Charge" (locked-horm Moose Display) (Attraction) — 7.1 mi, 016° N
LL Bean Boot (Attraction) — 7.1 mi, 016° N
Lobstermans Statue (Public Artwork) — 7.6 mi, 112° E
Old Farmhouse Foundation (Historic Ruins) — 7.8 mi, 022° N
Thunderhole (Attraction) — 7.8 mi, 109° E
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.9 mi, 205° SW · 17k acres

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