Explore Highland Park, 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 Highland Park, 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 Highland Park.
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 | Highland Park |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Kalamazoo County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 42.405226 |
| Longitude | -83.09765 |
| Population | 8,977 |
| Density | 1166.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 49083, 48203 |
| Area Code | 269, 313 |
| County Seat | Kalamazoo |
| School District | Highland Park City Schools |
Highland Park occupies a singular position as an urban enclave entirely surrounded by the sprawling reach of Detroit, defined by a level, hard-packed topography that feels removed from the wilder, uneven terrain found further afield near Gull Lake or the distant rise of The Hogback. It lies 8.9 miles north-northeast of Comstock, MI (from Comstock, MI: bearing 32°T), and is situated 9.6 miles west of Bedford. The air here holds a distinct, heavy stillness, often colored by the metallic tang of industrial memory and the long shadows cast by brick facades that have weathered decades of change. Beyond the immediate grid, the regional landscape transitions toward the quiet, wooded stretches near the W K Kellogg Experimental Forest and the steady, narrow currents of Augusta Creek, yet Highland Park remains resolutely fixed in its own rigid, geometric order. Sunlight strikes the flat surfaces of the older storefronts with a clinical clarity, highlighting the mortar lines and the stubborn resilience of a place that refuses to dissolve into its larger neighbor.
Highland Park gained its foundational identity through the rapid, rhythmic pulse of the early automotive age, serving as a crucible for assembly line innovation that forever altered the rhythm of human labor. This legacy of invention remains etched in the vacant, vast footprints of former production facilities, which once drew thousands to their gates and organized the daily lives of families around the relentless whistle of the shift change. While the local economy has since shifted away from those singular, towering industrial giants, the character of Highland Park persists in the endurance of its residential blocks and the persistent, quiet dignity of its remaining commerce. Even as the modern world accelerates around it, Highland Park maintains a deliberate, self-contained pace, where the memory of its mid-century significance informs the quiet, steady persistence of those who continue to call the neighborhood home.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Highland Park, Michigan. Coordinates: 42.405226, -83.09765. 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 Highland Park includes the ZIP code (49083, 48203), telephone area code (269, 313), county seat of Kalamazoo County (Kalamazoo), and school district assignment (Highland Park City 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. |