Jonesport Maine Map

About Jonesport, Maine

Jonesport is a locality in Washington County, Maine, United States. It is a small community with a population of 608. The population density is 147.3 people per km². Jonesport is located at 44.5329°N, 67.5983°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 04649.

Jonesport exists as a jagged reach of granite and spruce-fir pushing defiantly into the Atlantic Ocean, where the horizon often dissolves into a singular, bruised gray. It lies 60.9 miles east-southeast of Bangor, ME (from Bangor, ME: bearing 107°T), and is situated 31.5 miles east-northeast of Bar Harbor. Salt-crusted boulders line the shore, their surfaces smoothed by relentless tides that pull at the edges of the Chandler Bay Boating Access. Inland, the terrain rises toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Staple Ridge, while the quiet waters of Snare Creek wind through the marshy lowlands like a vein of darkened glass. On clear mornings, the air tastes of brine and cold pine, carrying a stillness that settles over the nearby French House Island, which lingers in the bay like a fragment of forgotten land.

Jonesport sustains itself through a long, rhythmic commitment to the sea, where the economy remains tethered to the harvest of the deep and the maintenance of lobster gear. The local character is defined by a stoic endurance, forged in the wake of generations who learned to read the shifting currents and the temper of the fog. Residents often retreat to the Mud Hole Trail for a solitary walk, or look toward the quiet depths of Simpson Pond when the Atlantic Ocean turns too violent for small craft. Life here moves with the tide rather than the clock, a measured existence where the legacy of the maritime trade remains visible in the weathered docks and the steady, purposeful clatter of gear being readied for the next dawn.

About This Jonesport Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Jonesport, Maine. Coordinates: 44.532856, -67.598326. 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 Jonesport includes the ZIP code (04649), telephone area code (207), county seat of Washington County (Machias), and school district assignment (Jonesport).

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.