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Kearsarge Michigan Map

Explore Kearsarge, 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 Kearsarge, Michigan

How to Use This Kearsarge, Michigan Map

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

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	Kearsarge
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Houghton County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	47.274924
Longitude	-88.416225
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	49913, 49942
Area Code	906
County Seat	Houghton

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About Kearsarge, Michigan

Kearsarge is a locality in Houghton County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Kearsarge is located at 47.2749°N, 88.4162°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP codes: 49913, 49942.

Kearsarge occupies a rugged expanse of the northern interior, defined by the persistent, cold flow of Slaughterhouse Creek as it carves a path through the dense, second-growth timber. It lies 69.8 miles northwest of Marquette, MI (from Marquette, MI: bearing 317°T), and is situated 7.3 miles west of Traverse. To the east, the horizon is anchored by the muted, blue-gray silhouettes of the Cliff Range, while the terrain itself remains dominated by the heavy, loamy soil of the regional highlands. Just two miles from the quiet, expansive waters of Calumet Lake, the air here carries a sharp, metallic clarity that deepens as the sun dips behind the canopy. Only a mile away, the quiet corridors of Local Forest provide a sanctuary of pine and hardwood, where the light filters through the branches in thin, fractured needles of gold during the late afternoon.

Kearsarge grew from the deep, subterranean ambitions of the nineteenth-century copper rush, an era that left the landscape scarred with the remnants of industrial labor and the scattered, skeletal remains of old mining shafts. While the relentless extraction of the past has long since faded, the local economy now sustains itself through a quieter, slower integration with the land, trading boomtown fervor for the steady, seasonal rhythms of the interior. The echoes of that former industry remain in the stark, functional architecture of the region, where the work of the hands once dictated the survival of the household. Travelers passing through Upper Falls, four miles distant, often find that the thunder of the water is the only significant interruption to a silence that defines the character of Kearsarge, a place that holds its history close, buried beneath the frost-heaved earth and the persistent growth of the woods.

Nearby Outdoor Places

WPA Stone Boat (Attraction) — 0.4 mi, 206° SW
Prospector's Paradise - Rock Shop (Attraction) — 0.5 mi, 025° NE
Local Forest (Local Resource Management Area) — 1.0 mi, 180° S
City of Copper Park (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 072° E
Ruth Ann Miller Memorial (Monument) — 2.3 mi, 245° SW
Calumet Theatre (Theatre) — 2.6 mi, 223° SW
Alexander Agassiz Memorial (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 214° SW
Float Copper (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 213° SW
George Gipp Recreation Area (Local Park) — 2.8 mi, 194° S
Black Creek (Conservation Area) — 3.6 mi, 327° NW
Keweenaw Great Lakes State Bottomland Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 3.9 mi, 314° NW
Old Homestead (Attraction) — 4.6 mi, 239° SW
Cathedral Pines (Attraction) — 4.7 mi, 238° SW
Gratiot River North (Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 352° N
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 5.0 mi, 174° S
Baraga State Forest Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 000° N
Houghton County Historical Museum (Museum) — 6.0 mi, 178° S
McLain State Park (State Park) — 8.2 mi, 254° W
Eagle River Museum (Museum) — 11.1 mi, 031° NE
Remains of North Quincy (No. 6) Shaft (Historic Ruins) — 11.8 mi, 218° SW
Remains of Company Community of Lower Pewabic (Historic Ruins) — 12.0 mi, 217° SW
Quincy Mine (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 218° SW
Isle Royale National Park (National Park) — 12.5 mi, 213° SW · 1.1M acres
The Miner (Public Artwork) — 12.6 mi, 213° SW
Keweenaw Waterway Lookout (Viewpoint) — 12.6 mi, 218° SW
Carnegie Museum of the Keweenaw (Museum) — 12.8 mi, 214° SW
Orpheum Theater (Theatre) — 13.0 mi, 218° SW
Seaman Mineral Museum (Museum) — 13.0 mi, 209° SW
Marquette Great Lakes State Bottomland Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 27.1 mi, 140° SE
Ottawa National Forest (National Forest) — 36.6 mi, 195° S · 995k acres

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