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Fife Lake Michigan Map

Explore Fife Lake, 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.

Interactive Map of Fife Lake, Michigan

How to Use This Fife Lake, Michigan Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Fife Lake, 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 Fife Lake.

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	Fife Lake
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Grand Traverse County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	44.57695
Longitude	-85.350614
Population	456
Density	242.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	49633
Area Code	989
County Seat	Traverse City
School District	Forest Area Community Schools

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About Fife Lake, Michigan

Fife Lake is a locality in Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 456. The population density is 242.5 people per km². Fife Lake is located at 44.5769°N, 85.3506°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. Fife Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 49633.

Fife Lake maintains a steady, quiet composure upon the northern landscape, where the earth rises into gentle, timbered swells that hold the sky at a distance. It lies 18.5 miles southeast of Traverse City, MI (from Traverse City, MI: bearing 134°T), and is situated 15.4 miles south-southeast of Acme. The air here carries the scent of damp pine and cold, clean water, drifting over the stillness of Fife Lake itself, a body of water that mirrors the pale, shifting clouds of the interior. To the east, the terrain gradually lifts toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Vosges Ridge, which marks the horizon like a faint ink stroke against the blue. Near the water, the ground softens into the quiet expanse of Lakeview Beach, where the soil is granular and cool, and the reeds sway with a rhythmic, measured patience. Beyond the immediate basin, the land is marked by deep, verdant woods that transition into the soft, shadowed hollows where Inlet Creek carves its narrow, winding path through the forest floor.

Fife Lake emerged from the intersection of timber extraction and the steady pulse of the railway, an origin etched into the timber-frame structures that remain as quiet witnesses to a past built on pine and iron. The local economy has long since shifted from the industry of the sawmills toward a quieter, seasonal existence, where the rhythm of life aligns with the turning of the woods and the frozen winters. Residents carry on with a modest, deliberate industry, maintaining a character shaped by the isolation of the inland forest and the long, quiet nights that descend when the sun dips behind the trees. There is a particular beauty in the way the twilight settles here, turning the water of Fife Lake into a sheet of hammered pewter, while the distant, shadowed ridges remind every observer of the vast, unbroken reach of the interior.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Fife Lake Historical Museum (Museum) — 0.1 mi, 277° W
Lakeview Beach (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 158° S
Village Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 103° E
Headquarters Lake Impoundment State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.0 mi, 185° S
Cadillac State Forest Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 182° S
Northrup Grave (Monument) — 6.0 mi, 305° NW
Manistee National Forest (National Forest) — 9.1 mi, 315° NW · 539k acres
Kingsley Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 9.3 mi, 273° W
Hill to the Lake (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 333° NW
Manton Area Historical Museum (Museum) — 11.5 mi, 192° S
Woodchip Hill (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 325° NW
The Wall (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 335° NW
S-Curve (Attraction) — 11.8 mi, 325° NW
High Rollway Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 12.1 mi, 238° SW
G.T. Butterfly House & Bug Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 13.6 mi, 350° N
Kalkaska Historical Museum (Museum) — 13.6 mi, 039° NE
Charters Traverse City State Park (State Park) — 15.1 mi, 320° NW
Skegemog Point Site (Historic Ruins) — 16.0 mi, 000° N
Frida Kahlo (Public Artwork) — 17.3 mi, 309° NW
Milliken Auditorium (Theatre) — 17.4 mi, 318° NW
The Alluvion (Theatre) — 18.1 mi, 314° NW
St. Francis A.D. 1887 (Monument) — 18.2 mi, 313° NW
Rainbow Valley Family Farms (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 18.9 mi, 296° NW
Lake Michigan Stonehenge (Historic Ruins) — 19.0 mi, 316° NW
Kirtlands Warbler Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 22.5 mi, 095° E · 13k acres
White Pine Trail State Park (State Park) — 22.8 mi, 186° S
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) — 33.1 mi, 319° NW · 127k acres
Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 33.7 mi, 319° NW · 32k acres
Manitou Passage Great Lakes State Bottomland Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 34.2 mi, 320° NW
Huron National Forest (National Forest) — 37.7 mi, 084° E · 436k acres

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