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Gobles Michigan Map

Explore Gobles, 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 Gobles, Michigan

How to Use This Gobles, Michigan Map

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

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	Gobles
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Van Buren County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	42.360869
Longitude	-85.879464
Population	851
Density	318.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	49055
Area Code	269
County Seat	Paw Paw
School District	Gobles Public School District

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About Gobles, Michigan

Gobles is a locality in Van Buren County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 851. The population density is 318.1 people per km². Gobles is located at 42.3609°N, 85.8795°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. Gobles is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 49055.

Gobles emerges from the southwestern Michigan landscape as a collection of modest silhouettes against a wide, prairie-inflected sky. It lies 12.5 miles northwest of Oshtemo, MI (from Oshtemo, MI: bearing 304°T), and is situated 9.9 miles north of Paw Paw. The terrain surrounding Gobles consists of level fields and stands of hardwood, where the light at dusk settles in long, amber slats across the stubble of harvested corn. A mile to the east, the quiet currents of Brandywine Creek cut a thin, dark ribbon through the soil, while the waters of Turkey Lake hold a mirror to the passing clouds. Beyond the immediate woodlots, the horizon remains flat and unyielding, though on the clearest days, the distant, hazy suggestion of Walnut Ridge provides a faint anchor to the geography. Within the center of the grid, Village Park offers a simple clearing where the air carries the scent of damp earth and coming frost, grounding the pace of the afternoon in the steady, rhythmic turn of the seasons.

Growth in Gobles traces its lineage to the expansion of regional rail and the clearing of timber, a history that lingers in the sturdy architecture of its older buildings and the utilitarian layout of its streets. The local economy maintains a quiet tether to the surrounding agriculture, where the labor of the year is measured in the seasonal yields of the fields and the maintenance of the nearby Allegan State Forest. Life here moves with the deliberate patience of a place that has learned to rely on its own internal gravity, far from the frantic hum of the industrial corridors to the east. Residents move through their days with an unassuming clarity, acknowledging neighbors in the post office or the hardware store, their presence as enduring as the deep, dark loam that defines this stretch of the state.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Village Park (Local Park) — 0.0 mi, 137° SE
Kal-Haven Trail Sesq. State Park (State Park) — 0.4 mi, 123° SE
Gobles Recreation Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 081° E
Shamrock Hills Golf Course (Park) — 2.8 mi, 026° NE
Cheshire Hills Golf Course (Park) — 5.4 mi, 341° N
County Youth Camp (Private Recreation) — 5.5 mi, 279° W
Paw Paw River Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 191° S
Sand Creek Preserve (Conservation Area) — 6.9 mi, 096° E
Allegan State Game Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.1 mi, 015° N
Fuller Woods State Game Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 234° SW
Overlook Deck (Viewpoint) — 10.6 mi, 118° SE
Manistee National Forest (National Forest) — 12.9 mi, 349° N · 539k acres
Lawrence Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 14.0 mi, 226° SW
The Committee (Public Artwork) — 14.4 mi, 112° E
Western W (Monument) — 14.6 mi, 112° E
Dalton Theatre (Theatre) — 15.0 mi, 109° E
Nelda K. Balch Playhouse (Theatre) — 15.1 mi, 109° E
Nature's Playground (Attraction) — 15.1 mi, 089° E
Martin Luther King Jr. (Monument) — 15.7 mi, 107° E
South Street (Attraction) — 15.8 mi, 108° E
Kalamazoo Valley Community College Center for New Media Art Museum (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 107° E
Kalamazoo Mall (Attraction) — 15.9 mi, 108° E
Black Arts & Cultural Center (Gallery) — 15.9 mi, 108° E
Artist Singh Gallery (Gallery) — 17.1 mi, 117° SE
JCPenney Portraits (Arts Centre) — 17.5 mi, 123° SE
Kalamazoo Film Society (Cinema) — 17.6 mi, 123° SE
Bernatche School of Dance (Arts Centre) — 17.7 mi, 124° SE
Sports Life Art & Design (Gallery) — 17.9 mi, 115° SE
Celery Flats Interpretive Center (Attraction) — 18.3 mi, 124° SE
Southwest Michigan Great Lakes State Bottomland Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 20.5 mi, 292° W

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