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National City Michigan Map

Explore National City, 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 National City, Michigan

How to Use This National City, Michigan Map

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

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	National City
State	Michigan (MI)
County	Iosco County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/Detroit)

Latitude	44.234185
Longitude	-83.723317
Population	480
Density	5.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	48748
Area Code	586
County Seat	Tawas City

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About National City, Michigan

National City is a locality in Iosco County, Michigan, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 5.0 people per km². National City is located at 44.2342°N, 83.7233°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/Detroit) timezone. ZIP code: 48748.

National City emerges from the quiet interior landscape as a cluster of modest dwellings surrounded by the persistent, unyielding reach of Michigan woodland. It lies 45.0 miles north of Bay City, MI (from Bay City, MI: bearing 11°T), and is situated 15.8 miles east-northeast of Skidway Lake. The earth here is defined by a slow, deliberate cadence, where the cooling air of dusk settles over the terrain to catch the amber light in the high, thin grasses. Elm Creek winds its path just a mile from the center, a narrow thread of water that draws the local deer and muffles the silence of the woods. Further afield, the presence of Sand Lake provides a basin of stillness six miles away, reflecting the shifting gray of the sky as the seasons turn the leaves from vibrant gold to a brittle, muted brown.

National City bears the quiet weight of an industrial past, its character shaped by the legacy of gypsum mining that once defined the rhythm of labor for those who settled these inland tracts. The National City Hunt Club serves as the primary steward of the surrounding acreage, maintaining the vast, wooded corridors where the silence is broken only by the sharp snap of undergrowth. Here, the local economy has transitioned from the heavy exertion of the quarries to a more watchful, private stewardship of the land. Life in National City moves with the spare, economical grace of a clockwork mechanism, indifferent to the urgent pace of the wider world, favoring instead the steady, repetitive cycles of the harvest and the deep, insulating cold of the winter months.

Nearby Outdoor Places

National City Hunt Club (Park) — 0.3 mi, 000° N
Pee-Ow Hunt Club (Park) — 2.0 mi, 082° E
State Forest (State Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 062° NE
Township of Burleigh Park (Local Park) — 2.7 mi, 269° W
Huron National Forest (National Forest) — 4.6 mi, 012° N · 436k acres
Hope Creek LC (Private Recreation) — 5.8 mi, 301° NW
Forest Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 9.0 mi, 267° W
Tawas Point State Park (State Park) — 12.9 mi, 086° E
Arenac County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 13.1 mi, 173° S
Kiwanis' Monument (Attraction) — 14.2 mi, 020° N
Canoer's Memorial (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 014° N
Iargo Springs Interpretive Site (Attraction) — 14.5 mi, 009° N
Lumberman's Monument (Monument) — 14.7 mi, 019° N
Rifle River Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 17.8 mi, 310° NW
Foote Pond Overlook (Viewpoint) — 18.2 mi, 034° NE
Observation Tower (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 310° NW
Huron Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 19.2 mi, 035° NE · 3,628 acres
ADA Hunting Blind (Attraction) — 20.0 mi, 310° NW
Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.3 mi, 142° SE · 1,668 acres
AuSable-Oscoda Historical Museum (Museum) — 23.3 mi, 056° NE
Paul Bunyan Statue (Public Artwork) — 23.5 mi, 056° NE
Frank Sabastian Smith House (Monument) — 25.5 mi, 277° W
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 27.7 mi, 046° NE
Pigeon Historical Society (Museum) — 35.9 mi, 141° SE
Kirtland Center for the Performing Arts (Theatre) — 38.4 mi, 298° NW
Steiner Museum (Museum) — 39.4 mi, 336° NW
Gladwin County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 41.0 mi, 247° SW
Bay City Cinemas (Cinema) — 42.7 mi, 191° S
World Friendship Shell (Theatre) — 44.7 mi, 191° S
Sanilac Petroglyphs (Historic Ruins) — 53.0 mi, 139° SE

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