Explore Clinton, 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 Clinton, 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 Clinton.
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 | Clinton |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Macomb County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 42.068279 |
| Longitude | -83.965732 |
| Population | 2,517 |
| Density | 529.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 48036, 48035, 48038, 49236 |
| Area Code | 313, 269 |
| County Seat | Mount Clemens |
| School District | Clinton Community Schools |
Clinton defines its own horizon through the steady, insistent movement of the Clinton River, which carves a path through the low-lying terrain like a slow pulse of silver. It lies 1.1 miles southeast of Clinton Township, MI (from Clinton Township, MI: bearing 146°T), and is situated 7.4 miles northeast of Warren. The air here holds the damp, heavy weight of the nearby water, a constant reminder that the expansive blue of Lake Saint Clair waits only four miles to the east. Within the quiet perimeter of Frank H. Budd Park, the light at dusk settles in long, bruised streaks of violet and gray, illuminating the flat, fertile earth that stretches out toward the horizon. The landscape does not rise to meet the sky with the drama of high peaks, though one might imagine the distant, unreachable silhouette of Bald Mountain as a phantom memory of elevation eighteen miles away. Even here, twenty-two miles from the open coastline, the atmosphere carries a marine crispness, a subtle salt-shadow cast by the proximity of L'anse Creuse Bay.
Clinton carries the enduring weight of its industrial heritage, a history marked by the rhythmic clatter of machinery and the persistent labor of those who shaped the regional economy. The current pulse of life in Clinton remains tethered to this legacy, balancing the quietude of residential streets with the lingering echoes of the manufacturing engines that once drove the surrounding region. Life here flows with the deliberate, unadorned pace of the river, where the concerns of the day are measured by the shifting color of the water and the seasonal transition of the plains. Far off in the mind’s eye, the distant shape of Grass Island anchors the local geography, a lonely point of reference in a world defined by the meeting of land and sky. The people move through their days with a pragmatic grace, finding small, quiet beauty in the way the wind catches the reeds or the specific, cold clarity of the morning light across the harbor-bound currents.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Clinton, Michigan. Coordinates: 42.068279, -83.965732. 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 Clinton includes the ZIP code (48036, 48035, 48038), telephone area code (313, 269), county seat of Macomb County (Mount Clemens), and school district assignment (Clinton 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. |