Explore Inland Township, 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 Inland Township, 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 Inland Township.
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 | Inland Township |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Benzie County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 44.644865 |
| Longitude | -85.869093 |
| Population | 2,800 |
| Density | 28.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 49643, 49629 |
| Area Code | 989 |
| County Seat | Beulah |
Inland Township reveals itself through a landscape of quiet, unadorned transition where the flat horizons of the deep interior meet the deliberate rise of the land toward Turtle Lake Hill. It lies 7.8 miles southwest of Long Lake Township, MI (from Long Lake Township, MI: bearing 231°T), and is situated 14.7 miles west-southwest of Traverse City. The air here holds a crisp, terrestrial stillness, untempered by the moisture of distant basins, leaving the sky to expand across the fields in wide, pale gradients of indigo and slate. To the east, the woods of the Pere Marquette State Forest push against the cleared acreage, their shadows stretching long and sharp across the stubble of autumn harvests. Kinney Creek cuts a narrow, winding vein through the soil just a mile from the center, its current muted by the thick, encroaching brush, while the reach of Grass Lake Flooding State Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary of marsh and reed that mirrors the changing seasons. The light at dusk here possesses a particular clarity, catching the frost on the tall, dormant grasses until they glow like thin, silver wires held against the darkening woods.
Agriculture remains the slow, persistent pulse of Inland Township, a rhythm defined by the cyclical labor of the soil and the patient maintenance of the local timber stands. History lingers in the heavy, weathered beams of older barns and the sturdy, unpretentious architecture that reflects a past built on the extraction and cultivation of the land’s raw resources. The proximity of Grass Lake, lying two miles out, provides a focal point for the quiet pastimes of the residents, who move with the measured pace of those accustomed to the long, cold winters of the north. Life here is not defined by the rush of industry but by the maintenance of small, functional homesteads and the shared responsibility of managing the surrounding woodlots. When the wind moves through the pine needles of the nearby forest, it carries the scent of resin and damp earth, a reminder that the land in Inland Township demands a steady hand and an observant eye to thrive.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Inland Township, Michigan. Coordinates: 44.644865, -85.869093. 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 Inland Township includes the ZIP code (49643, 49629), telephone area code (989), county seat of Benzie County (Beulah), and school district assignment.
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. |