Madaket Massachusetts Map

About Madaket, Massachusetts

Madaket is a locality in Nantucket County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a small community with a population of 377. The population density is 73.3 people per km². Madaket is located at 41.2824°N, 70.1833°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 02554.

Madaket endures as a thin, salt-blown sliver of land where the shifting sands meet the relentless pulse of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies 5.2 miles west of Nantucket Island, MA (from Nantucket Island, MA: bearing 262°T), and is situated 5.2 miles west of Nantucket. The landscape is defined by the low, scrubby reach of Quampache Bottom and the quiet, tea-colored depth of Long Pond, which sits only a stone’s cast from the dunes. Beyond the immediate shore, the jagged outline of Esther Island fragments the horizon, while the distant, hazy silhouette of the Monomoy Island Dunes acts as a silent sentinel against the western sky. Salt spray clings to the coarse beach grasses, and the light at dusk bleeds a bruised violet across the tidal flats, rendering the boundary between land and water fluid and uncertain.

Madaket carries the weight of a long maritime tenure, a place where the economy was once tethered to the harvest of the deep and the cautious commerce of the coast. Today, the rhythm of life adheres to the ebb and flow of the tide, governed by the protective oversight of the Cape and Islands Ocean Sanctuary. While the modern world presses inward, the pace remains dictated by the wind and the seasonal migration of the sea, far removed from the inland bustle of Abrams Creek. History here is written in the bleached wood of weathered shingles and the patient endurance of those who watch the Atlantic Ocean, finding a singular, stark clarity in the isolation of a geography that refuses to be tamed.

About This Madaket Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Madaket, Massachusetts. Coordinates: 41.282385, -70.183306. 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 Madaket includes the ZIP code (02554), telephone area code (339, 351, 413, 508, 617, 774, 781, 857, 978), county seat of Nantucket County (Nantucket), and school district assignment (Nantucket School District).

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.