Explore Milford, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Milford, 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 Milford.
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 | Milford |
| State | Maine (ME) |
| County | Penobscot County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 44.95743 |
| Longitude | -68.630943 |
| Population | 2,211 |
| Density | 255.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 04461 |
| Area Code | 207 |
| County Seat | Bangor |
| School District | Milford |
Milford stretches across a landscape defined by the steady, dark transit of the Penobscot River, which carves a deep, deliberate path through the earth. It lies 12.0 miles north-northeast of Bangor, ME (from Bangor, ME: bearing 33°T), and is situated 4.6 miles north-northeast of Orono.
The air here carries the scent of damp soil and ancient pine, filtered through the dense thickets of the University Forest only two miles away. Beyond the immediate banks of the river, the terrain rises into quiet, wooded slopes that climb toward the distant outline of Haynes Ridge, providing a constant, shadowed horizon. Milford Playground serves as a quiet center for the locality, a small patch of green where the pace of the afternoon slows to the movement of light across the grass. Not far from the river’s edge, the stillness of Otter Chain Ponds offers a mirror to the sky, reflecting the heavy, seasonal shifts of the northern woods.
Industry in Milford has long been tethered to the flow of the water and the harvest of the surrounding timber, a heritage that lingers in the sturdy architecture and the deliberate, unhurried movements of those who work the land. The history of the region is etched into the very soil, where the legacy of the Wabanaki people informs the quiet gravity of the environment. Travelers seeking a more rugged perspective might venture toward the Old Gold Mine Trail, where the earth reveals its older, more stubborn character beneath the canopy. Life in Milford persists with a quiet, observant dignity, shaped by the cycles of the interior wilderness and the enduring presence of the Penobscot River, which binds the local identity to the slow, relentless pulse of the inland woods.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Milford, Maine. Coordinates: 44.95743, -68.630943. 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 Milford includes the ZIP code (04461), telephone area code (207), county seat of Penobscot County (Bangor), and school district assignment (Milford).
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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |