Explore Copper Harbor, 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 Copper Harbor, 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 Copper Harbor.
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 | Copper Harbor |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Keweenaw County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 47.467908 |
| Longitude | -87.869878 |
| Population | 136 |
| Density | 34.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 49918 |
| Area Code | 906 |
| County Seat | Eagle River |
| School District | Grant Township School District 2 |
Copper Harbor remains a place defined by the heavy, dark expanse of Lake Superior, which anchors the northern horizon and dictates the temperament of the land. It lies 68.0 miles north-northwest of Marquette, MI (from Marquette, MI: bearing 340°T), and is situated 23.0 miles northeast of Traverse. The Garden Brook carves a path through the dense, verdant timber, its steady movement providing a constant, low-frequency hum against the silence of the woods. Three miles to the south, the profile of Rocky Ridge rises in a jagged, silent wall of stone, guarding the interior against the biting winds that sweep across the Keweenaw Great Lakes State Bottomland Preserve. Sunlight here possesses a brittle, crystalline quality, especially as it filters through the canopy to reach the hidden, plummeting rush of Manganese Falls.
Copper Harbor wears the weight of its industrial inheritance, a legacy of extraction that left behind a landscape of silent pits and rusted remnants of a time when the earth was peeled back for its veins of metal. The local economy has since shifted from the frantic intensity of the mining-camp era to a quiet, seasonal rhythm, where the needs of the traveler dictate the pace of the day. Life moves in accordance with the turning of the seasons, as the heavy snows of winter yield to a brief, bright period of growth in the deep forest. The remnants of the past are felt in the cool, dense air, a reminder that the land maintains its own endurance long after the machinery of industry has gone quiet.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Copper Harbor, Michigan. Coordinates: 47.467908, -87.869878. 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 Copper Harbor includes the ZIP code (49918), telephone area code (906), county seat of Keweenaw County (Eagle River), and school district assignment (Grant Township School District 2).
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. |