Explore Fulton, 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 Fulton, 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 Fulton.
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 | Fulton |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Keweenaw County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 47.299161 |
| Longitude | -88.360809 |
| Population | 182 |
| Density | 145.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 49052, 49950 |
| Area Code | 269, 906 |
| County Seat | Eagle River |
| School District | Calumet Public Schools |
Fulton holds a quiet vigil over the inland landscape, defined by the persistent, silver-threaded passage of Fulton Creek as it carves a path through the low-lying terrain. It lies 69.2 miles northwest of Marquette, MI (from Marquette, MI: bearing 319°T), and is situated 5.4 miles northwest of Traverse. The horizon remains wide and unencumbered, save for the distant, hazy silhouette of Mount Horace Greeley rising ten miles to the west like a somber sentinel. Nearby, the vast expanse of Thayer Lake exerts a gravitational pull on the local atmosphere, its waters cooling the summer air and turning the evening light into a bruised, shifting violet. Just two miles away, the quiet grounds of City of Copper Park offer a sanctuary of deep shade and stillness, where the earth feels soft and damp under the weight of heavy, ancient canopy trees.
Fulton remains a place of steady, deliberate motion, where the economy is tethered to the rhythms of the soil and the legacy of the regional landscape. The history of the area is not written in grand monuments, but in the enduring utility of the land, which has long favored agricultural diligence and the slow, mechanical patience of local industry. Life in Fulton moves with the seasonal cycle of the fields, a pace dictated by the hardening of the ground before winter and the sudden, verdant urgency of spring. Even as the modern world encroaches, the prevailing character of the place is one of modest persistence, where the light at dusk catches the dust of the backroads and the long shadows of the grain elevators, marking a day that has been earned through honest, quiet labor.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fulton, Michigan. Coordinates: 47.299161, -88.360809. 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 Fulton includes the ZIP code (49052, 49950), telephone area code (269, 906), county seat of Keweenaw County (Eagle River), and school district assignment (Calumet Public 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. |