Explore Burlington, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Burlington, 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 Burlington.
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 | Burlington |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Calhoun County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 42.106712 |
| Longitude | -85.079699 |
| Population | 281 |
| Density | 142.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 49029 |
| Area Code | 269 |
| County Seat | Marshall |
| School District | Union City Community Schools |
Burlington anchors itself upon the fertile, temperate plains of the Midwest, defined fundamentally by the steady, persistent passage of the Saint Joseph River. It lies 12.2 miles north-northwest of Coldwater, MI (from Coldwater, MI: bearing 341°T), and is situated 15.7 miles south-southeast of Battle Creek. The landscape surrounding Burlington unfolds in quiet, measured expanses of agricultural fields and pockets of deciduous woodland, where the light at dusk settles heavy and gold against the silos. Two miles to the east, the quiet surface of Turtle Lake reflects the expansive Michigan sky, acting as a calm counterpoint to the movement of the nearby river. Further toward the horizon, the faint, hazy rise of Walnut Ridge breaks the flat line of the earth, providing a distant, permanent silhouette against the changing seasons. The air here carries the scent of damp soil and drying stalks, a sensory reminder of the deep, black earth that dictates the rhythm of the surrounding countryside.
Burlington serves as a modest intersection of mid-nineteenth-century settlement, where the echoes of early milling operations still linger in the layout of its modest grid. The local economy remains tethered to the productivity of the land, with the nearby Cherry Flats providing a depression in the terrain that has long favored specific agricultural yields. Residents often navigate their days with an awareness of the nearby Turtle Creek Golf Course, a space that has become a primary feature of the local leisure landscape. Life in Burlington moves with the deliberate pace of a place that values its distance from the frantic pulse of the major industrial hubs, finding its character instead in the maintenance of traditional homesteads and the quiet persistence of its rural commerce. It is a place defined by the steady, unadorned labor of those who work the fields and the subtle, seasonal shifts that color the view from every porch.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Burlington, Michigan. Coordinates: 42.106712, -85.079699. 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 Burlington includes the ZIP code (49029), telephone area code (269), county seat of Calhoun County (Marshall), and school district assignment (Union City Community Schools).
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. |