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Barbeau Michigan Map

Explore Barbeau, Michigan, 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 Barbeau, Michigan

How to Use This Barbeau, Michigan Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Barbeau, Michigan. 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 Michigan 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 Barbeau.

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	Barbeau
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Chippewa County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	46.28863
Longitude	-84.281146
Population	280
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	49710
Area Code	906
County Seat	Sault Ste. Marie

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About Barbeau, Michigan

Barbeau is a locality in Chippewa County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 280. The population density is 5.0 people per km². Barbeau is located at 46.2886°N, 84.2811°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP code: 49710.

Barbeau occupies a low, quiet expanse of the Upper Peninsula where the earth yields to a heavy, damp stillness and the encroaching shadows of the northern timber. It lies 14.6 miles south-southeast of Sault Ste Marie, MI (from Sault Ste Marie, MI: bearing 168°T), and is situated 9.1 miles east-northeast of Kincheloe. The land here is defined by a flat, patient horizon, broken only by the thin, dark veins of School Creek that wind through the brush toward the distant, shifting waters of the West Neebish Channel. To the west, the landscape deepens into the dense, shadowed thickets of the Munuscong State Forest, while the nearby marshes of the Munuscong State Wildlife Management Area hold a stagnant, autumnal light that turns the reeds to copper. On clear days, the faint, hazy silhouette of Birch Hill marks the limit of the world to the south, and the surface of Deer Lake remains a mirror for the gray, unmoving sky.

Barbeau maintains a rhythm dictated by the seasonal passage of freighters through the channel and the slow, deliberate work of those who harvest the timber or tend the soil. History here is quiet, marked by the remnants of small-scale agriculture and the persistent, solitary labor of families who have long watched the water rise and fall against the banks of Sand Island. The local economy persists in the margins, tethered to the harvest of the woods and the seasonal flux of the water, far removed from the clamor of the industrial centers below. Life in Barbeau moves with the same muted, steady gravity as the currents, a place where the air carries the sharp, clean scent of pine and the cold, metallic breath of the northern channels.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Munuscong State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.1 mi, 205° SW
MNRTF Parcel 66 (State Conservation Area) — 5.4 mi, 019° N
Bailey - Lagerstrom (Conservation Area) — 6.0 mi, 057° NE
University of Michigan Homestead (Conservation Area) — 6.5 mi, 064° NE
Munuscong Golf Course (Park) — 7.3 mi, 208° SW
Kinross Heritage Park & Military Museum (Museum) — 10.4 mi, 261° W
Old Wilson School (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 261° W
Historic Caldwell Log Cabin (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 261° W
Kinross Heritage Park Blacksmith Shop (Museum) — 10.4 mi, 261° W
River of History Museum (Museum) — 14.7 mi, 348° N
Great Lakes Marine Hall of Fame (Attraction) — 14.8 mi, 350° N
Frying Pan Island Lighthouse (Attraction) — 14.8 mi, 349° N
Chippewa County Historical Society (Museum) — 15.0 mi, 348° N
Wheels of History Museum (Museum) — 16.1 mi, 301° NW
Delirium Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 17.9 mi, 270° W · 12k acres
Hiawatha National Forest (National Forest) — 18.0 mi, 214° SW · 899k acres
Narnia Lantern (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 176° S
Point Iroquois Lighthouse (Attraction) — 21.5 mi, 309° NW
Saint Joseph's Island Bird Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 22.3 mi, 132° SE
Carp, Michigan Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 26.7 mi, 228° SW · 6,014 acres
Whitefish Point Great Lakes State Bottomland Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 27.2 mi, 315° NW
Mackinac Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 27.7 mi, 242° SW · 11k acres
Harbor Island National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.7 mi, 122° SE · 2,183 acres
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 31.5 mi, 180° S
British Landing (Monument) — 33.3 mi, 212° SW
Sugar Loaf View (Viewpoint) — 33.7 mi, 209° SW
Paul Bunyon (Public Artwork) — 34.2 mi, 220° SW
Mackinac Island Art Gallery (Gallery) — 34.3 mi, 208° SW
Deer Ranch (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 38.2 mi, 221° SW
Seven Elements Art Gallery (Gallery) — 41.1 mi, 212° SW

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