Explore Dixboro, 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 Dixboro, 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 Dixboro.
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 | Dixboro |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Washtenaw County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 42.31226 |
| Longitude | -83.65605 |
| Population | 1,200 |
| Density | 55.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 48105 |
| Area Code | 313 |
| County Seat | Ann Arbor |
Dixboro occupies a quiet stretch of land defined by the persistent, winding course of Fleming Creek as it carves through the local topography. It lies 4.6 miles northeast of Ann Arbor, MI (from Ann Arbor, MI: bearing 51°T), and is situated 8.9 miles west of Canton. The landscape here favors a deliberate, modest scale, where the soil supports thickets of native hardwoods and the light at dusk settles in long, amber slats across the fields. Beyond the immediate banks of the creek, the earth rises into gentle elevations that suggest the distant, hazy prominence of the Sharon Short Hills far to the west. Residents often find their way toward the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, where the cultivated flora meets the wilder, unmanaged edges of the local woods, creating a silence that feels heavier and more intentional than the noise of the nearby regional centers.
Dixboro maintains a character forged by early settlers who saw the utility of the water and the fertility of the soil, long before the modern pace of the region began to press against its borders. The economy has shifted from its agrarian foundations, yet the memory of the mills and the labor of those who first cleared the timber remains etched into the layout of the streets. While Frain Lake sits only two miles away as a quiet, reflective anchor for the surroundings, the rhythm of life in Dixboro is dictated more by the seasonal transformation of the inland plains than by any singular industry. There is a distinct, understated pride in the preservation of these older parcels, where the architecture of the past continues to serve the needs of a contemporary, observant population.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dixboro, Michigan. Coordinates: 42.31226, -83.65605. 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 Dixboro includes the ZIP code (48105), telephone area code (313), county seat of Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor), and school district assignment.
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. |