Explore Flat Rock, 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 Flat Rock, 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 Flat Rock.
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 | Flat Rock |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Delta County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 42.097866 |
| Longitude | -83.269827 |
| Population | 10,541 |
| Density | 619.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 49837, 48134 |
| Area Code | 906, 313 |
| County Seat | Escanaba |
| School District | Flat Rock Community Schools |
Flat Rock emerges from the verdant, low-lying expanse of the Michigan interior, where the land stretches out in a quiet, deliberate flatness that holds the morning mist long after the sun has climbed. It lies 8.0 miles northwest of Escanaba, MI (from Escanaba, MI: bearing 314°T), and is situated 8.0 miles west-southwest of Gladstone. The terrain is defined by a slow, rhythmic transition from dense, shadowed woodlands to open clearings, with Bichler Creek carving a slender, winding path through the soil just a mile from the center of the settlement. To the west, the presence of Lake Michigan exerts a subtle, cooling influence on the air, tempering the heat of midsummer afternoons and lending a crispness to the evening breeze. Four miles away, the persistent, rhythmic rush of Chandler Falls provides a constant, low-frequency hum that underscores the stillness of the surrounding forest, while the distant, darker canopy of the Escanaba River State Forest marks the horizon like a jagged, ink-colored seam.
Flat Rock retains the industrious character of a place that grew by harnessing the land’s own resources, balancing the quietude of its rural surroundings with a history rooted in steady, methodical work. The landscape nearby is punctuated by the activities of the Bay De Noc Beagle Club, where the open fields and brush serve as a testament to the local devotion to the outdoors and the enduring tradition of tracking through the wilder edges of the region. Life in Flat Rock moves with the steady pulse of a pendulum, shaped by the changing light that turns the meadows a brittle, golden straw in the autumn and a deep, dormant gray during the long winter months. Here, the economy and the daily habits of the people remain tethered to the rhythm of the seasons, honoring a legacy of craftsmanship and endurance that prefers the substance of the earth over the fleeting clamor of the modern world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Flat Rock, Michigan. Coordinates: 42.097866, -83.269827. 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 Flat Rock includes the ZIP code (49837, 48134), telephone area code (906, 313), county seat of Delta County (Escanaba), and school district assignment (Flat Rock 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. |