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Irish Hills Michigan Map

Explore Irish Hills, 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 Irish Hills, Michigan

How to Use This Irish Hills, Michigan Map

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

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	Irish Hills
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Lenawee County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	42.058889
Longitude	-84.136944
Population	2,800
Density	55.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	49265
Area Code	269
County Seat	Adrian

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About Irish Hills, Michigan

Irish Hills is a locality in Lenawee County, Michigan, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,800. The population density is 55.0 people per km². Irish Hills is located at 42.0589°N, 84.1369°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP code: 49265.

Irish Hills presents a landscape of pronounced elevation changes where the earth seems to ripple in a rhythmic, glacial fatigue. It lies 12.3 miles north-northwest of Adrian, MI (from Adrian, MI: bearing 335°T), and is situated 8.5 miles west of Clinton. The terrain within Hayes State Park defines the local topography, characterized by deep, wooded hollows that hold the morning mist long after the sun has climbed. Sand Lake sits as a mirror to the sky, its edges fringed with dense thickets of hardwood that turn a brittle, burnt copper when the autumn frost arrives. A mile away, Evans Creek carves a narrow, serpentine path through the soil, its water moving with a deliberate, quiet urgency over stones smoothed by centuries of seasonal melt. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, casting long shadows that emphasize the dramatic rise and fall of the Irish Hills terrain.

Travelers have long recognized Irish Hills as a waypoint of curiosity, a corridor where the economy shifted from the labor of the soil to the leisure of the road. Generations of visitors arrived to witness the singular architecture of the observation towers that once punctuated these summits, structures that allowed the eye to trace the contours of a region defined by its isolation from the urban sprawl. Today, the pace of life remains tethered to the slow cycles of the seasons, where the preservation of the protected parkland acts as a counterweight to the encroaching modern speed. The identity of Irish Hills remains anchored in these high ridges, a place where the history of early transit and the quietude of the inland woods converge in a landscape that demands a slower, more attentive gaze.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hayes State Park (State Park) — locality lies within
W. J. Hayes State Park (State Park) — 0.9 mi, 016° N
Greenbriar Campground (Private Recreation) — 1.3 mi, 000° N
Greenbriar Golf Course (Park) — 1.5 mi, 359° N
Hidden Lake Gardens (State Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 158° S
Camp O' the Hills (Private Recreation) — 2.2 mi, 301° NW
Frances Broehl Mem. No.1 (Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 238° SW
Camp De Sales (Local Recreation) — 3.9 mi, 285° W
Onsted State Game Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 269° W
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.6 mi, 303° NW
Boutique Art Gallery (Gallery) — 10.7 mi, 236° SW
White Deer of Tecumseh (Monument) — 10.9 mi, 106° E
Fitz Overshot Waterwheel (Attraction) — 11.1 mi, 110° E
Woodstock Manual Labor Institute (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 250° W
Terry Fire Bowl (Theatre) — 11.4 mi, 329° NW
Dawson Auditorium (Theatre) — 11.8 mi, 161° S
Lenawee County Historical Museum (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 155° SE
Historical monuments, war veterans (Monument) — 12.5 mi, 154° SE
Wallsocket Horseshoe (Public Artwork) — 13.5 mi, 054° NE
Waterloo Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 16.2 mi, 356° N
Fen Overlook (Viewpoint) — 16.5 mi, 297° NW
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mi (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.4 mi, 193° S · 192 acres
Hurst Planetarium (Museum) — 17.9 mi, 307° NW
Ella Sharp Museum (Museum) — 17.9 mi, 307° NW
Hudson Museum (Museum) — 18.0 mi, 219° SW
Sky Miles (Attraction) — 19.1 mi, 004° N
The Upside Down (Attraction) — 19.1 mi, 004° N
Natural Selection (Attraction) — 19.4 mi, 005° N
Whitepine Studios LLC (Arts Centre) — 19.7 mi, 068° E
Painting with a Twist (Arts Centre) — 22.6 mi, 056° NE

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