Explore Leonard, 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 Leonard, 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 Leonard.
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 | Leonard |
| State | Michigan (MI) |
| County | Oakland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/Detroit) |
| Latitude | 42.865307 |
| Longitude | -83.142715 |
| Population | 377 |
| Density | 146.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 48367 |
| Area Code | 313 |
| County Seat | Pontiac |
| School District | Oxford Area Community Schools |
Leonard occupies a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of glacial moraines, where the earth rises into irregular humps and hollows beneath a canopy of hardwoods. It lies 7.5 miles north of Oakland Township, MI (from Oakland Township, MI: bearing 358°T), and is situated 9.9 miles northeast of Orion Township. The air here holds a crisp, terrestrial weight, cooling rapidly as the sun dips behind the distant, shadowed silhouette of Twombly Mountain. A mile to the west, the surface of Lake George mirrors the shifting violet hues of the sky, its stillness broken only by the occasional ripple of a waterfowl. Traces of the landscape’s rugged character persist in the thickets along East Pond Creek, where the water cuts a narrow, winding path through the soil, indifferent to the slow turning of the seasons.
Leonard emerged from the intersection of agricultural necessity and the iron-willed expansion of the nineteenth-century rail era. The Polly Ann Trail, which now runs directly through the center of Leonard, serves as a physical record of these former rail corridors, transforming an industrial artery into a quiet ribbon of gravel and grass for those who traverse the countryside on foot or bicycle. The local economy maintains a steady, modest pace, tethered to the rhythms of the land and the small-scale commerce that sustains a regional identity far removed from the clamor of the heavy manufacturing hubs to the south. Life in Leonard possesses a deliberate, unadorned quality, where the primary concerns remain the changing of the crops and the enduring stillness of the fields as evening settles over the horizon.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Leonard, Michigan. Coordinates: 42.865307, -83.142715. 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 Leonard includes the ZIP code (48367), telephone area code (313), county seat of Oakland County (Pontiac), and school district assignment (Oxford Area 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. |