Explore Lakeview, 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 Lakeview, 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 Lakeview.
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 | Lakeview |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Houghton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 43.443065 |
| Longitude | -85.266937 |
| Population | 1,024 |
| Density | 264.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 49015, 49129, 49913, 48850 |
| Area Code | 906, 517 |
| County Seat | Houghton |
| School District | Lakeview Community Schools |
Lakeview holds the quiet, steady gravity of the Michigan interior, defined by the expansive presence of Calumet Lake just two miles from its center. It lies 71.7 miles northwest of Marquette, MI (from Marquette, MI: bearing 315°T), and is situated 9.9 miles west of Traverse. Brewery Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the landscape, its waters feeding the surrounding lowlands with a persistence that dictates the town’s layout. To the horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Cliff Range breaks the skyline, providing a permanent backdrop to the dense, sprawling canopy of the Local Forest. The air here carries a crisp, inland clarity, often touched by the damp, mossy scent rising from the creek beds and the deep, silent cooling of the earth as the sun dips behind the distant ridges. Four miles away, the rush of Upper Falls provides a constant, low-frequency hum that seems to anchor the surrounding woods in a state of perpetual, rhythmic motion.
History in Lakeview remains tied to the slow, deliberate work of the land, where the local economy has long shifted from the early extraction of timber to a blend of small-scale agriculture and regional trade. The people move with a measured pace that mirrors the seasonal cycles of the surrounding plains, recognizing that the prosperity of the region depends on the health of the soil and the flow of the local waterways. Buildings of weathered brick and timber stand as remnants of an era when the railroad and the harvest defined the calendar, though today the town focuses on sustaining its own infrastructure. In the quiet hours of late afternoon, when the light turns a thin, pale gold against the pines, the isolation of the interior feels less like a distance from the world and more like a deliberate choice to remain connected to the essential, unadorned patterns of life.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lakeview, Michigan. Coordinates: 43.443065, -85.266937. 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 Lakeview includes the ZIP code (49015, 49129, 49913), telephone area code (906, 517), county seat of Houghton County (Houghton), and school district assignment (Lakeview Community 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. |