Explore Dodgeville, 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 Dodgeville, 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 Dodgeville.
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 | Dodgeville |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Houghton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 47.094094 |
| Longitude | -88.581235 |
| Population | 391 |
| Density | 279.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 49921 |
| Area Code | 906 |
| County Seat | Houghton |
| School District | Houghton-Portage Township Schools |
Dodgeville emerges from the dense, pine-shadowed horizon as a quiet sentinel overlooking the vast, shifting expanse of Huron Lake. It lies 67.8 miles northwest of Marquette, MI (from Marquette, MI: bearing 305°T), and is situated 2.0 miles south-southwest of Houghton. The landscape carries the cold, clean weight of the North Woods, where the air smells perpetually of damp cedar and the mineral tang of deep, dark water. Only a mile away, the Pilgrim River carves a narrow, serpentine path through the earth, its currents steady and dark as they move toward the lake. To the west, the distant profile of the South Range anchors the view, a jagged promise of elevation that breaks the monotony of the sky. Within the local borders, City of Houghton Park offers a patch of accessible green, a place where the light at dusk turns the foliage into a bruised, copper hue, casting long silhouettes that stretch toward the water's edge.
Dodgeville retains the ghost-echoes of a time when the earth beneath it was pried open for the promise of ore, leaving behind a legacy of resilience that defines the local character. While the roar of the mining camps has long faded into the quietude of modern industry, the economy remains tethered to the rugged reality of the Keweenaw, where the seasons dictate the pace of life with uncompromising severity. Further out, the silhouette of Harrington Island sits solitary upon the horizon, a reminder of the isolation that shapes the temperament of those who make their lives here. Even with the lure of more distant wonders like Hungarian Falls, residents remain anchored to the rhythm of the immediate shore, finding a strange, austere beauty in the way the winter ice locks the harbor and the summer sun lingers, pale and golden, far past the hour of dinner.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dodgeville, Michigan. Coordinates: 47.094094, -88.581235. 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 Dodgeville includes the ZIP code (49921), telephone area code (906), county seat of Houghton County (Houghton), and school district assignment (Houghton-Portage Township 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. |